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starship-design: Help with formula
Zenon Kulpa writes:
> Please, I have lost it somewhere, no time to search or derive,
> what is the formula for Earth time & crew time
> in the (one-way) flight with constant acceleration = 1g
> (half way +, half way - ) depending on the distance (in ly)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Zenon
For one-way acceleration:
t = (c / a) * acosh(1 + (a * d / c^2))
t = elapsed time
c = speed of light
a = acceleration
d = distance traveled
acosh = inverse hyberbolic cosine function