Gian Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Apparently the Orion Project for nuclear powered spaceflight asserted that by this method with an acceleration of 1G an Orion spaceship could attain a speed of 10% of the speed of light (c.) Mathematically, how do I work out 1. the length of time it would take to get from 0 to a speed of c/10 (ship's time,) and 2. what would be the distance travelled in that time? Cheerz GIAN🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Up to ~0.1c, non-relativistic equations are reasonably accurate, so v = at (thus, t = v/a, where v= 0.1c) and the displacement is s = 1/2 at^2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 Thanks Swansont. What is 'displacement?' 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, Gian said: Thanks Swansont. What is 'displacement?' 🙂 Distance (but can be expressed as a vector) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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