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Your fuel is measured in delta-V—the velocity you can accelerate by in an inercial reference frame—and kinetic energy scales with the square of your velocity.
by magneticDuck 5y ago
Your fuel is measured in delta-V—the velocity you can accelerate by in an inercial reference frame—and kinetic energy scales with the square of your velocity.
- kubanczyk 5y agoYes, Wikipedia offers a grokable example of increasing speed by 1 m/s: > at 1 m/s, adding 1 m/s increases the kinetic energy from 1 J to 4 J, for a gain of 3 J; > at 10 m/s, starting with a kinetic energy of 100 J, the rocket ends with 121 J, for a net gain of 21 J