One of your summer lunar space camp activities is to launch a
1010kg
rocket from the surface of the Moon. You are a serious space camper and you launch a serious rocket: it reaches an altitude of
201km
. The mass and radius of the Moon are
7.36\times 10^(22)kg
and
1740km
, respectively. What is the gain
\Delta U
in the rocket's gravitational potential energy?

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One of your summer lunar space camp activities is to launch a

1010kg

rocket from the surface of the Moon. You are a serious space camper and you launch a serious rocket: it reaches an altitude of

201km

. The mass and radius of the Moon are

7.36\times 10^(22)kg

and

1740km

, respectively. What is the gain

\Delta U

in the rocket's gravitational potential energy?

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