Doing calculations in an accelerating frame makes me sick I am afraid ;-) But I guess it would be the same force, since it's not a ficticious one like e.g. the centrifugal force.
My turn to give you some homework Harry, could you try the new multiwire-plane design guide I posted earlier today and let me know how usable it is? Say design the mother of all lifters, with the following specs: 100 kg thrust, 1 m gap, 0.9 kV/mm Power consumption, area, wire spacing? Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:13 PM Subject: [Vo]: lifter in a accelerating frame > > > > Imagine a lifter is hanging from a thread without > any power. Immediately after the thread is cut the power > is turned on. > > Would you get a different value for the force on the ions > if you did the calculation from the beginning in an > accelerating frame of reference? > > Harry >
