An unfueled 1 000-kg experimental rocket sled on level frictionless rails is loaded with 50 kg of propellant. It exhausts the propellant in a 20-s "burn.". If the rocket, initially at rest, moves at 160 m/s after the burn, what impulse is experienced by the rocket sled?

a. 1.1 × 10^5 kg·m/s b. 1.6 × 10^5 kg·m/s
c. 1.5 × 10^5 kg·m/s d. 1.9 × 10^5 kg·m/s


b

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