modify NEWTONIAN MECHANICS
Concerning the ion drive on the NASA Dawn spacecraft (AW&ST July 2, p. 56), it would be good to have the rocket scientists acknowledge that Newtonian mechanics won’t work at the velocities stated but must be modified by the relativity correction factor. My Dad and I first bumped into this in the...
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