Question

Someone please explain what a delta V actually is regarding astronomy and physics.

Answer 1

I am capable of using google as well as you two, was just putting it out there incase one of you knew off the top of your heads or something :P

Answer 2

V can be velocity, potential, voltage, volume and many others.
Delta V simply means a change in any of the above quantities, or in mathematical approaches, a vector operation.

Answer 3

For example, the Laplacian.

Answer 4

Laplacian?

Answer 5

Yes; rings a bell?

Answer 6

M not really .-. Should it?

Answer 7

I'm not going to lie, I was just playing Kerbal Space Program and thought it would be nice to calculate my entire flight before I launched :P

Answer 8

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Answer 9

If that is your kind of thing prim, astronomy and physics I recomend trying the game its fun :D

Answer 10

Basicaly you have a planet called kerbal where you are stationed at and you design all sorts of landers/satalites and all that good stuff to launch out and explore your solarsystem

Answer 11

I'll check it out.

Answer 12

I'm going to close this thread now unless you guys have a question for me that maybe I can help with. Other than that, have a good day!

Answer 13

Another quick question, what do the colored names mean? Prime's is green and I see yellow in the open questions to the left..?

Answer 14

I DO NOT KNOW I AM NOT AN ASTRONOMER

Answer 15

I... I think jamie is following me .-.

Answer 16

@Phantomwisp Depends on your smartscore. 90-99 is green. Lower scores have lower numbers.

Answer 17

Ah ok thanks. :D Closing thread now, type fast if you want it otherwise.

Answer 18

I meant *other colors.

Answer 19

\[ \LaTeX\] prime common

Answer 20

Yea I got that :P sorry meb, hopefully you arn't writing a book that im goin to cut off but you guys are needed elsewhere..
or not..

Answer 21

lul i am not stalking you

\(\large\ why~would~I~stalk~you~anyhow~?\)

Answer 22

That's enough kids. Go to bed.

Answer 23

lul kids :P