*Laugh* That is awesome, but you seem to have made a slight error in scale, which I have attempted to correct here:
http://hamsterrepublic.com/tmp/Geometrian%27s%20Bike.2.zip --- James Paige On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:09:31PM -0600, pymike wrote: > Here's a simulation of Ian riding a rocket bike, based on his original > code: http://pynguins.com/~pymike/files/Geometrian's Bike.zip > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Ian Mallett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmmmm... > True, let's take it slower. > F = MA > A = F/M > A = 4,152,000/546,720 > A = 7.594381036 > Gs = A/9.8 > Gs = 0.77493684041 > > Maybe I got the numbers wrong. As it turns out, I took the force for > the booster rocket alone and used the mass of the ENTIRE rocket > assembly, which is comprised of two boosters plus the main stage, all > having 4.15 meganewtons of thrust...so we have three times the force, > which makes all the calculations 3 (or more, if exponential) times > bigger. You get the idea though. > > -- > - pymike > "Python eggs me on."
