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On the AG vein, had a thought/question re the work that it is doing, by work I mean joules.
So, AG generator is on the ship, as are the occupants. So relative to the AG generator (assume for the time being no one is moving on the ship) the things the generator is acting on are not moving relative to itself. Since I imagine to cancel the forces a body experiences due to an acceleration, the AG generator must provide a force in the opposite direction, basically canceling that accelerating force. Since it is applying a force but no motion is happening, no work is done. So power requirements are zero? Or would that work move to an external reference frame?
Then from a structural perspective, would all the forces the generator is canceling be put back on it? Ie my mass might appear zero, but the reaction from my mass is put onto the generator?
Or is this best left untouched because it is not real lol.
<edit: corrected incorrect wording on question>
So, AG generator is on the ship, as are the occupants. So relative to the AG generator (assume for the time being no one is moving on the ship) the things the generator is acting on are not moving relative to itself. Since I imagine to cancel the forces a body experiences due to an acceleration, the AG generator must provide a force in the opposite direction, basically canceling that accelerating force. Since it is applying a force but no motion is happening, no work is done. So power requirements are zero? Or would that work move to an external reference frame?
Then from a structural perspective, would all the forces the generator is canceling be put back on it? Ie my mass might appear zero, but the reaction from my mass is put onto the generator?
Or is this best left untouched because it is not real lol.
<edit: corrected incorrect wording on question>
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