This is not a fourm to demand info nor is it a place of all answers, but a
place to learn and work together for better ideas and hopefully some
devices........ Quest for true knowledge...not the demand for answers..
Well William you need to decide on what acceleration factor you want to
travel at.....
You see speed is a certain distance in a space of a certian time
period....but.... acceleration is the rate that you increase or decrease
speed ..... you can say that speed is feet per second and acceleration is
feet per second per second (or per second squared)....... you can also rate
acceleration in terms of g forces... how many g's do you want the craft to
go (1 g = 9.81 meters/s/s or 32 feet/s/s) That is what determines in a
Newtonian sense how long it takes to get to a specific speed.... Now mass
determines how much force is required to push that mass to that
acceleration factor...... Engine efficency is needed to determine how much
fuel is required to produce that thrust...... and that quanitiy adds
additional mass to that craft, which then requires additional forces of
thrust...
Terry B....
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