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Re: Physics help
- To: T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)
- Subject: Re: Physics help
- From: kgstar@most.fw.hac.com (Kelly Starks x7066 MS 10-39)
- Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 08:42:57 -0500
- Cc: KellySt@aol.com, kgstar@most.fw.hac.com, stevev@efn.org, jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl, hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rddesign@wolfenet.com, David@InterWorld.com, lparker@destin.gulfnet.com, DotarSojat@aol.com, neill@foda.math.usu.edu, 101765.2200@compuserve.com, MLEN3097@Mercury.GC.PeachNet.EDU
At 11:31 PM 5/16/96, Timothy van der Linden wrote:
>Hi Kelly,
>
>Rex letter made me look back at out letters from last week.
>
>When I use the following numbers:
>
>Vexh=0.0667c (2E7 m/s)
>dV =0.3c (9E7 m/s)
>
>and the classic rocket formula:
>
>M=Exp[dV/Vexh]
>
>I get:
>
>M=90
>
>and not the 148 (or 150) you seemed to get.
>
>Is this the reason for the confusion that had arised?
>
>
>Timothy
Well thats part of it. It certainly doesn't give me a warm comfident
feeling when our numbers are that far apart! Eiather we're talking about
something fundamentally different and don't realize it, one of us has a
blown calculator, or one of us is badly misappling some equation.
Kelly
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