So I see that it does take more fuel to accelerate at a constant rate the higher the velocity? this seems very un-intuitive to me. In every physics simulator I've played (e.g. KSP) fuel always seems to be consumed at the same rate - is this just an illusion or are the physics wrong in these...
Oh this makes more sense however it still leads me to the same conclusion that it would take more energy (therefore fuel) to go from 50 to 100 km/s than it would from 0 to 50 km/s.
Am I right in saying that burning x amount of fuel will result in a release of kx amount of energy? (where k is an...
I still don't get it:
Imagine 2 rockets, 1 accelerates to 100 m/s and the other accelerated to 50 m/s then to 100 m/s (so both rockets end with the same end velocity)
both have a mass of 1 Kg
Kinetic energy of the first rocket:
1/2*1Kg*(100m/s)2 = 5000 J
Kinetic energy of the second rocket...
The equation for kinetic energy is:
k = 1/2*m*v2
This confuses me because this indicates it take more and more energy to accelerate...
Lets imagine a rocket in space (assume the mass of the rocket stays the same when accelerating) - the formula suggests it would take more energy (therefore...