On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour was launched on mission STS-49, the purpose of which was to install a new perigee kick motor in an Intelsat communications satellite. The following table...

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On May 7, 1992, the space shuttleEndeavourwas launched on mission STS-49, the purpose of which was to install a new perigee kick motor in an Intelsat communications satellite. The following table gives the velocity data for the shuttle between liftoff and the jettisoning of the solid rocket boosters.



















































Event



Time (s)



Velocity (ft/s)



Launch



0



0



Begin roll maneuver



10



185



End roll maneuver



15



319



Throttle to 89%



20



447



Throttle to 67%



32



742



Throttle to 104%



59



1325



Maximum dynamic pressure



62



1445



Solid rocket booster separation



125



4151



(a) Use a graphing calculator or computer to find the cubic polynomial that best models the velocity of the shuttle for the time interval t. Then graph this polynomial.


(b) Find a model for the acceleration of the shuttle and use it to estimate the maximum and minimum values of the acceleration during the first 125 seconds.



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