I believe I may have found my answer to my first issue. I now almost feel silly for asking it, because from the look of it, I learned this in middle school. It's amazing all the stuff I've forgotten over the years.
Like Newton's Second Law:
f = ma or force equals mass times the acceleration of the object
So my massive object (a space ship) would be somewhere between 2 and 2.25 billion kilograms depending on how much stuff is in it - including its nearly one million kilograms of compressed fuel.
Assuming 2.2 billion kilograms, it would be (converted to grams)
2,200,000,000,000 grams x 100 meters per second = 220,000,000,000,000 newtons of force
So, I believe this means that a constant influx of 220 trillion newtons of force is required to keep an object at an acceleration of 100 m/s. If I'm not mistaken, this also means that 220 trillion joules of energy is required to fuel this amount of force per second of acceleration.
Am I getting this right? Because it feels like I'm missing something, particularly in the newtons to joules conversion.
(Then again, I do tend to overcomplicate sometimes amazingly simple math).
In regards to magnetism, I've looked up a lot of the sources you've recommended, but I'm having difficulty understanding the material and what a lot of the math involved represents. I suppose it means perhaps there are dynamics to the problem that I'm unaware of, but now I'm not even sure what I'm looking for. Wikipedia isn't helping at all - it doesn't appear to explain what all the jargon actually means. It seems to just throw informaiton at me and I'm having trouble deciphering a lot of it into something I can use.
Like Newton's Second Law:
f = ma or force equals mass times the acceleration of the object
So my massive object (a space ship) would be somewhere between 2 and 2.25 billion kilograms depending on how much stuff is in it - including its nearly one million kilograms of compressed fuel.
Assuming 2.2 billion kilograms, it would be (converted to grams)
2,200,000,000,000 grams x 100 meters per second = 220,000,000,000,000 newtons of force
So, I believe this means that a constant influx of 220 trillion newtons of force is required to keep an object at an acceleration of 100 m/s. If I'm not mistaken, this also means that 220 trillion joules of energy is required to fuel this amount of force per second of acceleration.
Am I getting this right? Because it feels like I'm missing something, particularly in the newtons to joules conversion.
(Then again, I do tend to overcomplicate sometimes amazingly simple math).
In regards to magnetism, I've looked up a lot of the sources you've recommended, but I'm having difficulty understanding the material and what a lot of the math involved represents. I suppose it means perhaps there are dynamics to the problem that I'm unaware of, but now I'm not even sure what I'm looking for. Wikipedia isn't helping at all - it doesn't appear to explain what all the jargon actually means. It seems to just throw informaiton at me and I'm having trouble deciphering a lot of it into something I can use.
