The other day I said:
>is about the same?). If you assume a mass of 1,650,000 gms and calculate the
>thickness of the skin of the sphere you find it to be 0.0349 cm or about
>0.0137 in. If the density is greater than 8 gm/cc then the thickness will be
>even less. Somebody check these numbers, you know how bad I am with numbers!
>Assuming no miscalculations, wouldn't this coupled with your calculations
>mean that the hulls should have a higher armor rating?
What I meant was 1,650,000 kgs. This gives a thickness of 33.27 cm. This
looks more like what it should. I told you I was bad with numbers. Hard
to believe I graduated college! Fortunately, in physics and astronomy you
do most of your work with symbols (which I don't have problems with, really!).
TLH
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T.L.Hayes |
MIT/Lincoln Laboratory |
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