Question

A typical person begins to lose consciousness if subjected to accelerations greater than about 5g (49.0 m/s2 ) for more than a few seconds. Suppose a 3.00 x 104 -kg manned spaceship’s engine has an exhaust speed of 2.50 x 103 m/s. What maximum burn rate |M/t| could the engine reach before the ship’s acceleration exceeded 5g and its human occupants began to lose consciousness?

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