• Space travel under constant acceleration is a hypothetical method of space travel that involves the use of a propulsion system that generates a constant...
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    magnitude (acceleration) Shock (mechanics) Shock and vibration data logger measuring 3-axis acceleration Space travel using constant acceleration Specific...
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    Artificial gravity (category Space colonization)
    redirect targets Space travel under constant acceleration – Proposed mode of space travel Stanford torus – Proposed NASA design for space habitat Young,...
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    derived from the positions of objects and time. In circumstances of constant acceleration, these simpler equations of motion are usually referred to as the...
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    that could produce acceleration continuously from departure to arrival would be the fastest method of travel. A constant acceleration journey is one where...
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    same moment in S with the same acceleration, they must have the same velocity all of the time in S. Thus, they are traveling the same distances in S, so...
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  • original altitude. Constant-thrust and constant-acceleration trajectories involve the spacecraft firing its engine in a prolonged constant burn. In the limiting...
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    emptier-than-average region of space, the observed cosmic expansion rate could be mistaken for a variation in time, or acceleration. A different approach uses...
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  • In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag). This is the...
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  • linear motion, with constant velocity (zero acceleration); and non-uniform linear motion, with variable velocity (non-zero acceleration). The motion of a...
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    case of an increase in speed from 0 to v with constant acceleration within a distance of s this acceleration is v2/(2s). Preparing an object for g-tolerance...
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  • without the need to correct for acceleration. All frames of reference with zero acceleration are in a state of constant rectilinear motion (straight-line...
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    light early in the acceleration process. As a result, "accelerating" electrons increase in energy but can be treated as having a constant velocity from an...
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    al-Baghdaadi (born Nathanel, Iraqi, of Baghdad) stated that constant force imparts constant acceleration. According to Shlomo Pines, al-Baghdaadi's theory of...
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    information, matter, or energy can travel through space. All forms of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, travel at the speed of light. For many...
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    space that is not undergoing any change in motion (acceleration), from which a position can be measured along 3 spatial axes (so, at rest or constant...
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    vehicle, such as a car, that is changing direction. If a car is traveling at a constant speed along a straight road, then a passenger inside is not accelerating...
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    simulator to simulate the feeling of going into space. In soil mechanics, centrifuges utilize centrifugal acceleration to match soil stresses in a scale model...
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    a constant speed, but does not have a constant velocity because its direction changes. Hence, the car is considered to be undergoing an acceleration. Since...
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  • gravitational acceleration. Life on Earth, and thus the reproductive and ontogenetic processes of all life, evolved under the constant influence of the...
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  • general relativity, such as by expanding or contracting space to make the object appear to be travelling greater than c. Such proposals are still widely believed...
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    the horizontal acceleration component produced by horizontal motion. There are other components of the Coriolis effect. Westward-traveling objects are deflected...
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    Mass driver (category Space colonization)
    maximum acceleration part spaces the coils at constant distances, and synchronizes the coil currents to the bucket. In this section, the acceleration increases...
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    shown that objects in free fall under the influence of the Earth's gravitational field have a constant acceleration, and Galileo's contemporary, Johannes...
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    throughout, is separate from space, and is agreed on by all observers. Classical mechanics assumes that time has a constant rate of passage, independent...
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    despite the apparent acceleration of the front.) The Airy wave train is the only dispersionless wave in one dimensional free space. In higher dimensions...
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    systems, one subject to a constant gravitational field causing acceleration and the other subject to constant acceleration, like a rocket far from any...
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    Rocket Rocket engine nozzles Satellite Spaceflight Space launch Space travel using constant acceleration Specific impulse Tsiolkovsky rocket equation "Electric...
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    accelerometer is a device that measures the proper acceleration of an object. Proper acceleration is the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of the object...
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    Gravity (category Acceleration)
    gravitational field is numerically equal to the acceleration of objects under its influence. The rate of acceleration of falling objects near the Earth's surface...
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