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Relativistic rocket means any spacecraft that travels close enough to light speed for relativistic effects to become significant. The meaning of "significant" is a matter of context, but often a threshold velocity of 30% to 50% of the speed of light (0.3 c to 0.5 c ) is used.
An antimatter rocket is a proposed class of rockets that use antimatter as their power source. There are several designs that attempt to accomplish this goal. The advantage to this class of rocket is that a large fraction of the rest mass of a matter/antimatter mixture may be converted to energy, allowing antimatter rockets to have a far higher energy density and specific impulse than any ...
A rocket's required mass ratio as a function of effective exhaust velocity ratio. The classical rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation is a mathematical equation that describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a device that can apply acceleration to itself using thrust by expelling part of its mass with high velocity and can thereby move due to the ...
In the non-relativistic Kepler problem, a particle follows the same perfect ellipse (red orbit) eternally. General relativity introduces a third force that attracts the particle slightly more strongly than Newtonian gravity, especially at small radii.
The effects of relativistic travel are an important plot point in several stories, informing the psychologies and politics of the lighthuggers' "ultranaut" crews for example. In the novel 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke , the spaceship Universe , using a muon-catalyzed fusion rocket , is capable of constant acceleration at 0.2 g under ...
In an inertial reference frame a free particle has a straight world line. In a non-inertial reference frame the world line of a free particle is curved. Take the example of the fall of an object dropped without initial velocity from a rocket. The rocket has a uniformly accelerated motion with respect to an inertial reference frame.
The classic example of a non-relativistic spacetime is the spacetime of Galileo and Newton. It is the spacetime of everyday "common sense". [1] Galilean/Newtonian spacetime assumes that space is Euclidean (i.e. "flat"), and that time has a constant rate of passage that is independent of the state of motion of an observer, or indeed of anything external.
The jet is surrounded by a lower-velocity non-relativistic component. There is evidence of a counter jet, but it remains unseen from the Earth due to relativistic beaming. [99] [100] The jet is precessing, causing the outflow to form a helical pattern out to 1.6 parsecs (5.2 light-years). [76]