Re: Summarry of the momentum wars and idea.

[Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>]

Kevin C. Houston writes:
 > the "momentum" happens every second, so it's actually an acelleration.

That won't get you out of conservation of momentum.  The system
must change momentum per unit time to equal the amount of
momentum added per unit time.

 > many structures (static tho they be) resist continuous acceleration all 
 > the time by providing opposing compressive or tensile forces

The opposing forces are some finite amount of energy that is
loaded into the system once.  Once the structure is loaded it
does not absorb any more energy.

If a static structure had to dissipate energy continuously to
remain standing, where would such energy come from?  Why doesn't
your house fall down?  Where are the batteries?

 > rocket equation units should have units of Kg/sec, because that is a mass 
 > flow rate.

The equation I was talking about:

   Me=G*(Ms+Mf) * gamma/(Ve *C)

   where 
   Ve is exhaust Velocity expressed as a fraction of C.
   Me is Exhaust Mass.
   Ms is ship's Mass.
   Mf is Reaction Mass.
   G  is ship's acceleration.
   gamma is SQRT(1 - Ve^2

It is inconsistent since it has units of mass on the left, units
of mass/time on the right.