Re: What would the end velocity be if...?

Rod wrote:

> Haven't done the sums but I would have thought you would have left
Newton 
> far behind and would need to use special relativity

For 100 gee over 60 000 mi, the resulting speed is about 430 km/s. 
That's awfully high, but a tiny fraction of that of light, which is 300 
000 000 km/s.  Special relativistic effects would be insignificant for 
the accuracies we're talking about here.

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