What is "accelerations"

Usage examples of "accelerations".

We shot across starfields in a series of wrenching accelerations, followed by terrifying transits through the vortices themselves.

The almost automatic processes of Libby's brain started running off the unbelievably huge and complex problem in accelerations, intervals, difform motion.

No more muscle-wrenching accelerations until we started back toward Edrin.

That, perhaps, was why most of the crew, during the inactive phase between accelerations, had chosen to cook their own food and eat in their suites.

However, he liked cats for themselves, quite aside from their neat shipboard habits, their ready adaptability to changing accelerations, and their usefulness in keeping the ship free of those other creatures that go wherever man goes.

Get them to change the laws on maximum permissible drive accelerations, and you'll be able to cut the transits.

He put the space pod to a cable rendezvous with a cargo Slingshot—one with high accelerations, never intended for people.

Assuming constant accelerations, the range will start to open again almost immediately at that point.

Above 8,500,000 tons, warship accelerations fell off by approximately 1 g per 2,500 tons, so that a warship of 8,502,500 tons would have a maximum acceleration of 419 g and a warship of 9,547,500 tons would have a maximum acceleration of 1 g.

The curve of the compensator's most efficient operation means that a smaller vessel (with a smaller area to enclose in its compensator field) can pull substantially higher accelerations, and no amount of brute impeller power can create an artificial grav wave with a sufficiently deep inertial sump to overcome this fundamental disadvantage of a large ship.

Assuming all headings and accelerations remain constant, we'll hit a zero-range intercept in almost exactly forty-six minutes.

He studied the vectors and accelerations displayed on his maneuvering plot, then made a small sound of mingled satisfaction and disgust.

Such turbulence could destroy a ship, but it was almost more frustrating that no one could take full advantage of the potential of the Warshawski sail (or, for that matter, the impeller drive) because no human could survive the accelerations which were theoretically possible.

Thus a smaller ship, with a smaller compensator field area, could sustain a higher acceleration from a given wave strength, and the naturally-occurring and vastly more powerful grav waves of hyper-space allowed for far higher accelerations under Warshawski sail than could possibly be achieved under impeller drive in normal-space.

Equipped with Warshawski sails, gravity detectors, and the inertial compensator, a modern warship could attain hyper accelerations of up to 5,500 g and sustain apparent velocities of as much as 3,000 c.