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rojer ramjet
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Howdy guys!
First I should probably introduce myself and give a little educational history, not necessarily so y'all can take pity on me and do my work for me, but so that you can understand the purpose of my question - I'd like to try and figure it out myself; I feel a great sense of accomplishment in figuring things out.
Anyway, I'm a high-school dropout who spent 22 years in the Army; I've accrued more than 200 credit hours in community college, just taking classes that interest me; I'm also a licensed Master Electrician, AWS Certified Critical Members and Structural Steel Welder, an amateur ballistician (I used to own a firearms and ammunition manufacturing company, for which I did all design and testing); currently I do commercial salvage, search and recovery, and public safety diving; I have contracts with the DOD, Coast Guard and several Sheriff departments in California, Oregon and Washington State. I'm distantly familiar with gas physics.
I'm not a dummy, I'm just uneducated.
I'm also a HUGE science fiction fan; my favorite is fiction based upon Newtonian physics; speed of light is absolute, anti-matter is rare and not used as a power source, etc.
My question: In many of the books I've read, such as from Clarke, Reynolds, Ctein, Corey, etc, acceleration has been described in percentages of "G," instead of "miles per hour," things under constant acceleration could only easily be described like that, right?
I'd like to understand the "relative velocity," but I don't want to make a graph to determine what velocity a body would be traveling after a certain period of known acceleration, which is the only way I know how to calculate such large numbers - is there an equation that would allow me to calculate relative velocity based upon acceleration according to the speed of gravity on Earth? Is that even the right way to frame the question? lol
And guidance in finding the answer for myself would be appreciated much more than the answer - I can do algebra well, very well; I tutor in math A and D at Sierra College, though I'm afraid I'm a victim of "trained monkey syndrome;" I know how to get the answer, I'm just not sure why I use the steps that I've been trained to use to find the answer. I have minimal skills in trigonometry and geometry, and none in calculus or differential calculus.
Warm regards!
First I should probably introduce myself and give a little educational history, not necessarily so y'all can take pity on me and do my work for me, but so that you can understand the purpose of my question - I'd like to try and figure it out myself; I feel a great sense of accomplishment in figuring things out.
Anyway, I'm a high-school dropout who spent 22 years in the Army; I've accrued more than 200 credit hours in community college, just taking classes that interest me; I'm also a licensed Master Electrician, AWS Certified Critical Members and Structural Steel Welder, an amateur ballistician (I used to own a firearms and ammunition manufacturing company, for which I did all design and testing); currently I do commercial salvage, search and recovery, and public safety diving; I have contracts with the DOD, Coast Guard and several Sheriff departments in California, Oregon and Washington State. I'm distantly familiar with gas physics.
I'm not a dummy, I'm just uneducated.
I'm also a HUGE science fiction fan; my favorite is fiction based upon Newtonian physics; speed of light is absolute, anti-matter is rare and not used as a power source, etc.
My question: In many of the books I've read, such as from Clarke, Reynolds, Ctein, Corey, etc, acceleration has been described in percentages of "G," instead of "miles per hour," things under constant acceleration could only easily be described like that, right?
I'd like to understand the "relative velocity," but I don't want to make a graph to determine what velocity a body would be traveling after a certain period of known acceleration, which is the only way I know how to calculate such large numbers - is there an equation that would allow me to calculate relative velocity based upon acceleration according to the speed of gravity on Earth? Is that even the right way to frame the question? lol
And guidance in finding the answer for myself would be appreciated much more than the answer - I can do algebra well, very well; I tutor in math A and D at Sierra College, though I'm afraid I'm a victim of "trained monkey syndrome;" I know how to get the answer, I'm just not sure why I use the steps that I've been trained to use to find the answer. I have minimal skills in trigonometry and geometry, and none in calculus or differential calculus.
Warm regards!