Talk:Thruster

How speed depands on time, mass and thrust? At least for equilibrium speed tell me, how depends on thrust and mass? I thought equilibrium speed is proportional thrust/mass, but experiments show it's not true. Not liear, but growing dependense on this ratio.

- I looked into it. The calculations seem to be complex. There is a quadratic equation there (force of friction = a*V^2 + b*V + c), and both platform mass and platform width go there in every component as coefficients in a non-trivial way. I tried to derive it by measuring the speed of the platform in different conditions, but got bored. Too much work for no real benefit. But I did find some useful information:

• The closest planet always pulls you by 10km/s.
• Platform mass is almost irrelevant. Yes, you shouldn't be afraid to make you platform bigger.
• Platform width, on the other hand, is VERY important. The slimmer is your ship, the faster it goes.

It is probably worth putting somewhere on the wiki, because it is not obvious that what you really need to look at when building a platform is its width (which is not even shown to you), but I have no idea where exactly. Maybe somebody more stubborn than me will derive the correct formula. I have all the measurement data, if anybody is interested. --Morse (talk) 19:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Please add explanation for data sheet.

It seems that, if you understand the basic mechanic, the datasheet probably makes sense but, if you don't, it's just a bunch of columns of numbers. Specifically, how does one know the Filled Fluid Reserve, and how does one plan for it to be their ideal chosen amount?