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Tricky Expansion

Any help with this question? I can quite easily expand this with the taylor expansion, just using Mo and Mf, the variables I'm given, but I'm not too sure if its the answer needed. You're told Mo loses mass to Mf, which is causing me to think there is something I'm missing. Note, I'm meant to be answering this question on the basis I have no concept of the rocket equation, it's just an example for taylor/maclaurin. Cheers

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Original post by Phichi
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Theoretically Mo/Mf can go as large as you like. Does that effect your expansion?

M0 is the initial mass, a constant.
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Original post by ghostwalker
Theoretically Mo/Mf can go as large as you like. Does that effect your expansion?

M0 is the initial mass, a constant.


Yeh, perfect, was completely obvious to the fact Mo was a constant for a minute. Cheers, all sorted

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