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Ah, those formulae work a treat! I'm getting 508.5 days to travel 1ly under constant 1g acceleration and a final speed of 1.44c. Seems about right to me! Thanks So much for your help!

PeterO, I should have mentioned in my original post - as this is for a sci-fi story I have made up a way around the light speed limit, so I don't need to worry about relativistic effects or physical limitations on acceleration. SteamKing, I haven't studied quadratic equations since high school...

Homework Statement I am doing some study for a short sci-fi story I'm writing. I'm trying to figure out how to determine the time that a craft has traveled if I know the constant acceleration and distance traveled. eg. A ship accelerates constantly at 1g and travels 0.5 light years. How long...