Scaling to Keep Flying Characteristics
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RE: Scaling to Keep Flying Characteristics
ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot
Did anyone tell Einstien? Would this mean that a scale rocket ship can go faster than the speed of light?
that is time for a scale model runs faster than full scale, by the square root of the scale factor.
It's an interesting thing to imagine though.
Hugh
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RE: Scaling to Keep Flying Characteristics
ORIGINAL: MerlinV
Not a chance. Because Special Relativity says that the scaled down object aproaching the speed of light will increase in mass and length (it's complicated) as it gets closer to the speed of light. So, entually returning to it's original scale.
It's an interesting thing to imagine though.
Hugh
ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot
Did anyone tell Einstien? Would this mean that a scale rocket ship can go faster than the speed of light?
that is time for a scale model runs faster than full scale, by the square root of the scale factor.
It's an interesting thing to imagine though.
Hugh