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the balloon goes one way, the air goes the other way,
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action and reaction are equal, even lay people know that.
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Or, if you stand on a frozen lake
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and you take a gun and you fire something,
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but then the bullet goes
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one way and you go the opposite way, again,
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because of Conservation of Momentum.
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The rocket is a little more subtle
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and I just want to mention a few aspects of it.
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I don't want to go into the rocket problem in any detail.
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It's good for you to know how these things are done.
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Here's a rocket whose mass at this instant is M,