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I was thinking more of the instant you shut off engines and disconnect 130,000 kg of mass of stage one. There is an interesting Δa/Δt while fuel is consumed an
by shagie 2y ago
I was thinking more of the instant you shut off engines and disconnect 130,000 kg of mass of stage one.
There is an interesting Δa/Δt while fuel is consumed and mass changes.
There are discontinuities to the graph when engines are shut down and stages decoupled.
- sokoloff 2y agoThat’s the essence of a legitimate question: over small enough time periods (as the bolts explode over a non-zero period of time), is it continuous or discontinuous? Over a macro scale, it’s discontinuous, of course.
- tomek_ycomb 2y agoIt's nature, it's continuous at small enough scales. But, checkout Zeno's paradox for more on your philosophical questions