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Homework Statement
Astronaut Jane's lifeline to her spaceship comes loose and she finds herself stranded, "floating" 75.0m from the spaceship. She throws her 2.00kg wrench at 20.0m/s in a direction away from the ship. If she and her spacesuit have a combined mass of 175kg how long does it take her to coast back to the spaceship?
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The Attempt at a Solution
This one I am so lost about...
Do I use the equation: (Mass of Suit x Mass of Jane) Initial Velocity + Mass of wrench (Initial Velocity) = (M of Suit + M of Jane) (V 1 + M of wrench (V 1 of wrench)
Therefore = (175kg) 0 + 2kg (0) = (175kg) (final velocity + 2kg (20.0m/s)