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High School What do the letters in the solar sail equation denote?
Specifically, what does each of the letters denote in this solar sail equation? "The force on a sail and the actual acceleration of the craft vary by the inverse square of distance from the Sun (unless extremely close to the Sun[17]), and by the square of the cosine of the angle between the...- Enis
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High School What are the applications of solar sails?
I'm working on a project on solar sails, and I was wondering if you could provide me with some information. I couldn't find much on the internet, except highly technical research. In fact, even the Wikipedia article is too technical for my purposes. If you know about this stuff or have any...- Enis
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- Applications Solar Solar sails
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