Recent content by Carlos PdL SdT

I think you used the solar constant on Earth when you should have been using the one on the surface of the sun which is way higher. I would suggest you work with the 5700K and work out the Energy from there

Thank you again, but as I understand it in this specific case where the air is held in separate tanks I could assume a constant pressure and temperature. It'd change however if I used my first example of a hole in the ISS. Anyway I looked at the NASA site and I feel like it's going to become one...

I don't how it works in your college but at least in Spain having a B is nothing bad, there are pretty much only two grades: failed or not failed and about 90% of people fail some subject sooner or later. If you can do physics (and your grades prove you can), I'd suggest: do it. Maths can get...

I'm studying aerospace engineering and you do get a basic notion of Astronomy. But only the part which is useful for orbital mechanics and similar stuff. Other things like black holes, dark energy, background radiation, you name it, aren't treated in class because they're "useless" for...

Not much. Till now I've only seen incompressible flow in class. But then I guess I'd only have to plug in sqrt(1'4*R*T) and make a relation between T and the amount of air that remains within the suit. Or assume it's always the same which is easier to do.

I have a weird question here. At what speed does air flow from a pressurized container at one atm into vacuum (rupture in ISS for example). I was watching the Martian and I wanted to see how much deltaV Mark Wattney can get by puncturing his suit, so I did my homework and saw that the spacesuit...

My name is Carlos, and I am an aerospace engineering student. I am a first year student but I have a lot of questions I can't answer with my current knowledge so this is a way to get an answer to all the questions I don't get answered in class without having to wait years