Red Bull Stratos

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Skype lessons, huh?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Correction, you would keep accelerating only while the engine was on. When you shut it off, you would remain at the same velocity forever, unless disturbed.

Also, when you say "you don't feel it", I disagree, because your back would be pressed into the seat when you hit go. In fact that's the biggest BS about sci-fi movies, next to the noise in space issue.

Yeah I fucked up on that one. My bad, thanks for the correction.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Finally I understand why the seconds are squared. Been so many years since school that I forgot that shit. Its talking about a velocity increase of X mps every second. So, if the acceleration was 5 mpss, then the velocity would be 5 mps after the first second, 10 after the second, and so on.

But what if the rate of accel is increasing, how would you express that in one number?

You would have to use calculus. Integrals and Derivatives and all that nonsense. I don't even want to think of that right now.

Here you go, example 2 at the bottom of the page talks about skydivers, have fun with the equations, it's too early for this shit.

http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/coursed.../velocity.html

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