Rocket Mechanics (Special Relativity)

Rocket mechanics studies the motion of vehicles propelled by the expulsion of mass (e.g. rockets). The rocket’s mass continuously changes throughout its course, thus making its motion different from that of constant-mass bodies.

Links:

1. Wikipedia — Tsiolkovsky rocket equation

Contents:

• Relative rocket speed from mass change and effective exhaust speed
  • speed
  • effective_exhaust_speed
  • initial_mass
  • final_mass
  • law
• Rocket thrust is rocket mass times acceleration
  • fuel_consumption_rate
  • relative_speed
  • acceleration
  • mass
  • law
• Rocket speed from mass and impulse
  • speed_change
  • effective_exhaust_speed
  • initial_mass
  • final_mass
  • law