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The statement that a property of a system does not change if the system is isolated.

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Derivation of Tsiolkovsky rocket equation

I believe the textbook's instruction to disregard the $dm_g\,dv $ term is in error. If we leave it in, and let $m_0$ denote the initial mass and $dm = -dm_g$ the change in mass, (1) reduces to $$\ …
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Derivation of Tsiolkovsky rocket equation

My textbook derives the rocket equation from conservation of momentum like so: $$\begin{align}p_i&=p_f \tag{1}\\ mv&={(m-dm_g)}{(v+dv)}+dm_g(v-u)\\ mv&=mv+m\,dv-dm_g\,v-dm_g\,dv+dm_g\,v-dm_g\,u\\ m\, …
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