Thanks for the reference but the conclusion doesn't seem right to me. The equations in that article are keeping acceleration constant but this would make cosmonauts heavier and heavier as their weight is given by the force they are experiencing and the force is F = ma which, by keeping the a...
I've noticed the description above is not correct although I think it's obvious what I'm after. The acceleration of course cannot be constant. What is constant is the weight of the cosmonauts (via F = m x a). The acceleration a actually decreases in time while m increases keeping the product...
I'm making research for an article about constant acceleration / deceleration ship propulsion. Now, it's about 30 years since I was solving differential equations so there's no way I could solve, let alone devise, an appropriate differential equation. I'm not even sure an appropriate...