You've recently read about a chemical laser that generates a 20.0-cm-diameter, 22.0 mw laser beam. one day, after physics class, you start to wonder if you could use the radiation pressure from this laser beam to launch small payloads into orbit. to see if this might be feasible, you do a quick calculation of the acceleration of a 20.0-cm-diameter, 99.0 kg, perfectly absorbing block. what speed would such a block have if pushed horizontally 100 m along a frictionless track by such a laser?

Astudent throws a water balloon with speed v0 from a height h = 1.76 m at an angle θ = 21° above the horizontal toward a target on the ground. the target is located a horizontal distance d = 9.5 m from the student’s feet. assume that the balloon moves without air resistance. use a cartesian coordinate system with the origin at the balloon's initial position. (a) what is the position vector, rtarge t, that originates from the balloon's original position and terminates at the target? put this in terms of h and d, and represent it as a vector using i and j. (b) in terms of the variables in the problem, determine the time, t, after the launch it takes the balloon to reach the target. your answer should not include h. (c) create an expression for the balloon's vertical position as a function of time, y(t), in terms of t, vo, g, and θ. (d) determine the magnitude of the balloon's initial velocity, v0, in meters per second, by eliminating t from the previous two expressions.