Lieutenant Wharf, of mass 98.3 kg, is outside the space shuttlecraft Enigma trying to repair a broken warp engine nacelle. He finds he has drifted away from the shuttle while carelessly daydreaming. Miraculously, a stray photon torpedo casing (mass 2,020 kg) appears. Wharf uses this casing to get back to the shuttle by pushing against the casing. If the casing moves directly away from the shuttle after this push with a speed 0.2 m/s, and it then takes him 5.5 seconds to reach the shuttle again, how far away was he from the shuttle, in m?
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Use the impulse formula to solve for acceleration, solve for d using kinematics.
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