The Saturn V, developed at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)under the dir

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The Saturn V, developed at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)under the direction of Wernher Von Braun, was the largest in afamily of liquid-propellant rockets that solved the problem ofgetting to the moon. A total of thirty-two (32) Saturns of alltypes were launched, not one failed. The three stage Saturn V wastaller than a 36 story building and was the largest, most powerfulrocket ever launched. Fully loaded with the Apollo spacecraftonboard, it weighed 6.8 million pounds. This was still no match;however, for the five powerful rockets that controlled the firststage with 33,560,000 newtons of thrust upwards. Using thisinformation find the net acceleration (m/s2) of theSaturn V rocket. Assume that there is no change in mass,the rocketstays completely perpendicular, and there is no drag on therocket.     

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thrust on the rocket                                F = 33,560,000 newtons mass of the rocket ' M '= 6.8 *10^6 pounds                              M =  (6.8 *10^6 pounds) / (2.2046 pound / kg)             accleration of saturn V , rocket                                   a = F / M . pluging in the given values in the above equaionwe can solve for acceleration , ' a ' .                             

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