The Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags NJ is the tallest steel roller coaster. The car has a mass of 9750 kg with passengers. It is shot across a horizontal track then climbs up a vertical incline to a height of 139 m before stopping at the top. Ignoring friction and air resistance, what amount of kinetic energy must the coaster have before it goes up the incline? Note: Set the horizontal section of track as height = 0.
Gravity= 9.8 m/s^2

To place a communications satellite into a geosynchronous orbit at an altitude of 22,240 mi above the surface of the earth, the satellite first is released from a space shuttle , which is in a circular orbit at an altitude of 185 mi, and then is propelled by an upper-stage booster to its final altitude. as the satellite passes through a, the booster's motor is fired to insert the satellite into an elliptic transfer orbit. the booster is again fired at b to insert the satellite into a geosynchronous orbit. knowing that the second firing increases the speed of the satellite by 4810ft/s, determine (a.) the speed of the satellite as it approaches b on the elliptic transfer orbit, (b.) the increase in speed resulting from the first firing at a.