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I'm having trouble with a question from a past paper, please help.

A rocket is fired vertically but begins to turn towards the tangent of Earth's surface. At a height of 260m the rocket runs out of fuel and is travelling at a 65 degree angle to the horizontal and follows a parabolic trajectory before hitting the ground 12 seconds later. What was the speed of the rocket as it ran out of fuel?
 

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I'm having trouble with a question from a past paper, please help.

A rocket is fired vertically but begins to turn towards the tangent of Earth's surface. At a height of 260m the rocket runs out of fuel and is travelling at a 65 degree angle to the horizontal and follows a parabolic trajectory before hitting the ground 12 seconds later. What was the speed of the rocket as it ran out of fuel?
You can use the deltaY equation to solve for Uy (which I get as ~37m/s)

You can then use this with the angle for find u (~41 m/s)
 

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