[FONT=Courier New]Ok, the ship masses 1000 tonnes (M_s = 10^6 Kg) and carriess 500 tonnes (M_r = 5*10^5 Kg) hydrogen reaction mass mass. If the ship's mission requires an acceleration of 8 gees (a = 78.6 ms^-2) for 100 hours (t_1 = 3.6*10^5 s), what is the minimum amount of antimatter needed? I...
Ok, if I'm burning 1 g/s of antimatter and using totally unrealistic technology to get 1.8x10^15 J/s of harnessable energy put into moving x kg/s of hydrogen out the back then the v_e is
1.8x10^15 = 0.5*(x)*v_e^2 , v_e = sqrt(2.0*1.8x10^15/x). Then, the thrust would be...
If you were using a small amount of antimatter and shooting it at a larger mass of matter and using the resulting explosion of particles for thrust, the the whole rocket would get radioactive as hell though.
Energy required to accelerate a ship.. WITH ANTIMATTER!
Hey, I was reading a science fiction book that had lots of fast pitched space battles, ships manoeuvring around at 8 gees and stuff, powered by antimatter :P . So I was wondering, let's say you had a ship with a mass of 1000 tonnes.. how...