I need some physics help
Oct. 17th, 2019 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreOK, another question for my NaNo project. This one gets very geeky, so hold on.
The main weapons in my universe for ship-to-ship combat are grasers - gamma spectrum lasers focused by artificial gravity - that transfer a lot of energy to the enemy ship in the form of heat, which causes explosions, melting, and all sorts of chaos.
The main sublight drives are fusion torches, which I imagine would create a wake of hot gasses.
My question is, would shooting a graser through that fusion exhaust cone degrade it in any way? Especially close to the drive bells where things are the most chaotic?
I'm trying to determine if in the final third of the book the enemy can do a straight on stern chase, or if they'd need to spread out to get around the engine wake to fire effectively.
Thanks in advance.
The main weapons in my universe for ship-to-ship combat are grasers - gamma spectrum lasers focused by artificial gravity - that transfer a lot of energy to the enemy ship in the form of heat, which causes explosions, melting, and all sorts of chaos.
The main sublight drives are fusion torches, which I imagine would create a wake of hot gasses.
My question is, would shooting a graser through that fusion exhaust cone degrade it in any way? Especially close to the drive bells where things are the most chaotic?
I'm trying to determine if in the final third of the book the enemy can do a straight on stern chase, or if they'd need to spread out to get around the engine wake to fire effectively.
Thanks in advance.
