Natty- awesome advice, thanks a bunch.
Vader- yeah, I don't put much stock in people mimicking Bender and saying "Dooooooooooooom!" So I would definitely appreciate some more details. I understand it might be difficult to get a foot in the door, but that's not something I'm worried about...
Well that's embarrassing. I have no idea how I messed that one up.
As far as top ten and whatnot go, my 800 was in English, not math, unfortunately, so I'm not entirely sure how easy it will be to get into the really good schools (pretty sure MIT is out of reach for me, for example, and not...
Finally getting some time to look at this. For Stefan's constant, in US units, I'm looking at 0.1714 x 10^-8 BTU hr-1 x ft^-2 x R^-4 ? R seems to be the temperature in this case, so I'm assuming rankine scale. Safe assumption will be to put all temps in rankine, then?
For the view factor, I'm...
Maybe my understanding is faulty or fuzzy, but why would generating power on an orbiting satellite force that satellite to lose it's orbit and enter the atmosphere (i.e. crash, unless I'm reading it wrong)?
Ah, right. I have some college (IU would've taken about two years worth of credits had I transferred there instead of joining up) so it would probably just be an undergrad. I don't think my math score was quite high enough to get into MIT but I've looked at CalTech and Berkeley. I've also heard...
So, being intensely interested in space in general and more specifically in the possibilities of travel through it, I would like to ask about possible locations and courses of study to get into the engineering and design aspects of space travel. I'm especially interested in the propulsion and...
Is this the math I'm looking for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation#Radiative_heat_transfer
I'm in the navy, not in any sort of school or anything, so my access to useful information for this is kind of sketchy sometimes. I appreciate all of your help!
So essentially, I'm correct in my assumption that it is plausible, I'd just have to figure out the math to determine exactly when it becomes effective. Cool, thanks guys! Or girls. Whatever, lol
So, I know that it has been sort of asked in other forms before, but they mostly deal with human beings and so I've yet to find an answer to the specific part of this quandary: if a mechanical system is exposed to space (with just the skin of the ship itself as the only boundary between heat...