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How large of a solar sail would be needed to travel to mars in under a year?
I'm attempting to approach this using the identity
$$F/A = I/c$$
I can solve for Area easily enough
$$A = F(c/I)$$
and I know the distance $d$ is
$$d=1/2(at^2)$$
But I'm having difficulty trying to ...
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What are the normal modes of a vertical rope?
Closely related to this question on traveling waves on a hanging rope, I would also like to know what the normal modes are on a rope that hangs vertically, fixed at both ends.
Tension in the rope ...
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Will a wave packet undergo dispersion when traveling down a hanging rope?
Suppose I tie one end of a rope to my ceiling and the other end to a spot on my floor directly underneath it. Because the rope has some mass, the tension varies along the rope, from highest at the ...
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Transmission of energy in medium and wave nature (periodicity)? [closed]
Is there any example of a transmission of energy in a medium that does not show wave nature?
