Solving Motion Problems

Question

A lunar probe is moving 1670 m/s at a 73.0 angle. it needs to land on the moon 3.71 x 10^8 m away in a 46.0 direction in 8.64 x 10^4 s. what is the magnitude of the acceleration that the engine must produce?

Answer 1

There are issues with the problem statement. The distance from the moon is as far as the earth is to the moon, which means you are not dealing with constant gravitation and are dealing with orbital mechanics. This will require some time dependent acceleration. This seems unlikely given the question of magnitude of a. This would have to be a pretty advanced class in order to solve this problem.