Re: [pygame] Rocket + Bike = Physics

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*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

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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 <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx> 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."