Steering to the stars

[Gian]

Apparently the Orion Project for nuclear powered spaceflight asserted that by this method with an acceleration of 1G an Orion spaceship could attain a speed of 10% of the speed of light (c.)

Mathematically, how do I work out

1. the length of time it would take to get from 0 to a speed of c/10 (ship's time,) and

2. what would be the distance travelled in that time?

Cheerz

GIAN🙂

[swansont]

Up to ~0.1c, non-relativistic equations are reasonably accurate, so v = at (thus, t = v/a, where v= 0.1c) and the displacement is s = 1/2 at^2

[Gian]

Thanks Swansont. What is 'displacement?' 🙂

[swansont]

3 minutes ago, Gian said:

Thanks Swansont. What is 'displacement?' 🙂

Distance (but can be expressed as a vector)