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

"Erik Max Francis" <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Rod wrote:
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>> 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.


I should have done the sum;-)
Think first, post later.


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