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  Escape velocity - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In physics, for a given gravitational field and a given position, the escape velocity is the minimum speed an object without propulsion, at that position, needs to have to move away indefinitely from the source of the field, as opposed to falling back or staying in an orbit within a bounded distance from the source.
The simplest way of deriving the formula for escape velocity is to use conservation of energy, thus: in order to escape, an object must have at least as much kinetic energy as the increase of potential energy required to move to infinite height.
E.g., for the Earth the rotational velocity is 465 m/s to the east at the equator, and the escape velocity to the east, with respect to the Earth's surface, is ca.
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 Station Information - Escape velocity
An escape velocity is the minimum speed at which an object without propulsion can move away from a source of a gravitational field indefinitely if there is no friction.
The simplest way of deriving the formula for escape velocity is to use conservation of energy.
where is the escape velocity, G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the body being escaped from, "m" is the mass of the escaping body (cancels out), and r is the distance between the center of the body and the point for which escape velocity is being calculated.
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 Escape Velocity (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Escape Velocity is a single-player, role-playing, science fiction computer game series first introduced in 1996 by Ambrosia Software for the Apple Macintosh.
In addition to the amount of work that would be required to produce one, the game’s developers believe that a multi-player version of the game would not be compatible with the gameplay of the series.
The plot of the original Escape Velocity involves disputes between the Confederation government and a Rebellion against it.
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 * Escape velocity - (Astronomy): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For instance, the escape velocity for an object to leave the Earth is approximately 12 km/s or 42,000 km/hr.
Escape Velocity: The outward velocity required to leave the surface of a body mass M and radius R and escape to infinity (not fall back).
Escape velocity is the speed a moving object must have in order to escape from the gravitational pull exerted by another object.
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 Escape Speed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One somewhat counterintuitive feature of escape velocity is that it is independent of direction, so that "velocity" is amisnomer; it is a scalar quantity and would more accurately be called "escape speed".(One complication is that virtually all astronomical objects rotate.
Defined a bit more formally "escape velocity" is the initial speed required to go from an initial point in a gravitationalpotential field to infinity with a residual velocity of zero, relative to the field.
is the escape velocity, G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the body being escaped from, m is the mass of theescaping body (cancels out), and r is the distance between the center ofthe body and the point for which escape velocity is being calculated.
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 Escape velocity
An escape velocity is the minimum speed at which an object without propulsion can move away from a source of a gravitational field indefinitely, barring other factors such as friction.
In any case, the object is assumed to be a point with a mass that is negligible compared with that of the source of the field, usually an excellent approximation.) It is commonly described as the speed needed to "break free" from a gravitational field.
Even more so, they may sometimes depend on direction.) The simplest way of deriving the formula for escape velocity is to use conservation of energy.
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 Encyclopedia: Pirate (Escape Velocity Nova)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the computer game Escape Velocity Nova, the Federation is one of the principle governments.
The Auroran Empire is one of the main political blocs in the computer game Escape Velocity Nova.
Escape Velocity Nova is an expandable card-driven board game based on the popular computer game of the same name.
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 Escape Velocity (computer game): Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Escape Velocity is a single-player (additional info and facts about single-player), role-playing (additional info and facts about role-playing), space (An area reserved for some particular purpose) computer game (A game played against a computer) series.
Similarly, the developers pay no heed to the near-constant requests for a multi-player (additional info and facts about multi-player) version of the game; besides the amount of work that would be required to produce one, they doubt that the end result would even be fun.
All three games are shareware (Software that is available free of charge; may be distributed for evaluation with a fee requested for additional features or a manual etc.).
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 ecsape velocity information,escape velocity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Note that the ecsape velocity from the surface of Earth is not a speed that a spacecraft sent to outer space actually attainsunless its motion is truly balistic: while being propelled the height increases and the corresponding ecsape velocitydecreases.
is the ecsape velocity, G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the body being escaped from, m is the mass of theescaping body (factors out), and r is the distance between the centre ofthe body and the point at which ecsape velocity is being calculated.
For the ecsape velocity this resultsin the square root of the sum of the squares of the escape velocities of all sources separately.
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 Escape velocity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For a body with a spherically-symmetric distribution of mass, the escape velocity v
An actual escape requires that the parabolic orbit does not intersect the celestial body.
For non-convex bodies, not each point on the surface needs to be a possible starting point of such an orbit.
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 Escape Velocity (computer game) : Escape Velocity (game)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Escape Velocity is a single-player[?], role-playing, space[?], computer game series.
Currently, the Escape Velocity games are only available for the Apple Macintosh.
The Vonians are much more easily seen as evil than either side in the previous game, but there is still a significant plotline should the player choose their side.
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 Escape Velocity for PC video game review and cheats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Many commercial games -- Buried in Time or The Dark Eye -- don't allow you the luxury of playing the game the way you want to play it; they have very specific objectives you must achieve in order to "finish" the game.
The final strength of the game is that Matt Burch, the game designer and developer, has released the resource code for public consumption.
This seems to be a major oversight on the part of the game designers, but I found that I had many of the key commands memorized in about an hour.
www.gamezilla.com /reviews/e/ev.asp   (1257 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Escape velocity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Scalar is a concept that has meaning in mathematics, physics, and computing.
Jump to: navigation, search Conservation of energy, also known as the first law of thermodynamics, is possibly the most important, and certainly the most practically useful of several conservation laws in physics.
kilometre per second is an SI derived unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), signified by the symbol km/s or km s-1.
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 Wikinfo | Escape velocity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
independent of direction, so that "velocity" is a misnomer; it is a scalar quantity and would more accurately be called "escape speed".
where ve is the escape velocity, G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the body being escaped from, "m" is the mass of the escaping body (cancels out), and r is the distance between the center of the body and the point for which escape velocity is being calculated.
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 a personal history of computer games
Computer games were important to me long before I found the web.
Some of my computer game playing was rooted in pen and paper role playing games - I played Car Wars before I played Autoduel, and with Donnan, it wasn't much of a leap to go from Dungeons & Dragons to Ultima.
The price of the average computer game has remained at about $35-50 for the last ten years, making it expensive for anyone to do a broad survey of the literature of computer games.
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 Game Revolution Macintosh Review Page - Game Revolution
Escape Velocity is not what you would call eye candy, but it's graphics are practical.
The only digitized speech in the game is from your escorts who vocally agree or argue with you.
OK, so its not the flashiest game ever made, but being one of the most addicting games ever, every Mac owner, bar none, should have a version of Escape Velocity on their computer.
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 Escape Velocity - Reader Review - GameFAQs
Escape Velocity is one of Ambrosia's most recent ventures..
All the ships and planets are prerendered by a computer so they have a smooth 3D look, and they are all well animated, but most ships and such are small and all the action takes place on one space screen without a whole lot of variety.
If you are a Mac user with a computer that can display at least 256 colors, you have yourself here a game that's not too big, but that will keep you involved for thousand and thousand of hours.
www.gamefaqs.com /computer/mac/review/R827.html   (1072 words)

  
 Escape Velocity Nova - A Sci-Fi Card-Driven Board Game
Escape Velocity Nova is an expandable card-driven board game based on the popular computer game from Ambrosia Software.
There is almost nothing you can do in the computer game that is not represented in this card game, and yet, it is still simple enough for an 8 year old player to understand.
Escape Velocity: Nova has fast action, political intrigue, immense variety of options, and an intense struggle for survival.
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 Mac Game Database > Product Detail > Escape Velocity: Nova
I am an Escape Velocity enthusiast, i guess you could say I have an obsession.
After I paid for the game the computer that it was on got wiped and along with it all my pilots which was pretty annoying considering I had completed the Polaris and other races missions.
EVN is a great game but Ambrosia can't seem to get their sh*# together regarding the problem with registration codes.
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 The Gamers Temple - News - Escape Velocity Nova and Deimos Rising
Ambrosia is bringing both Escape Velocity Nova and Deimos Rising to PCs and is looking for beta testers for both games.
The adrenaline rush called Deimos Rising was one of the first games to be bundled on new computers with Apple's Mac OS X, and the twisted plotlines of Escape Velocity have left many players spinning in their swivel chairs.
The third incarnation of the Escape Velocity series finds you as a young pilot with a brand-new shuttlecraft, full power cells, and an entire universe to explore.
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 New Games from Ambrosia - UGN
New Games from Ambrosia Darwinia and EV Nova games
Developed in conjunction with ATMOS and DG Associates, the game is an expandable card-driven board game based on the universe and story-lines of Escape Velocity: Nova.
The User Group Network is a member of: The Association of Apple Computer Users and Groups, the MUG News, and is sponsored in part by: The Design and Publishing Center, The News Serve Network, and the Designers' Bookshelf.
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 Download escape velocity Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Escape Hybrid also produces as little as half the amount of carbon dioxide as a conventional gas engine.
This is more of a focus on the path to what he described as "Bridge Three" in Fantastic Voyage: the logical end results of applied nanotechnology and bioengineering put to work extending the healthy human life span.
It'll be a good few decades before we see any of this reduced to practice, however, which is why it is important to take good care of your health now - it'd be a shame to miss the boat on actuarial escape velocity and radical life extension just because you let things go to seed....
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 Escape velocity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Even moreso, they may sometimes depend on direction.) The simplest way of deriving the formula for escape velocity is to use conservation of energy.
where v_e is the escape velocity, G is the gravitational constant, m is the mass of the body, and r is the distance between the center of the body and the point for which escape velocity is being calculated.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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 Learn more about Escape velocity in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Learn more about Escape velocity in the online encyclopedia.
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 EV - TheBestLinks.com - Acronym, Combination, Computer game, Electronvolt, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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escape velocity: in physics, the speed required to escape gravity
Escape Velocity: a computer game and role-playing game
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 Ambrosia Software, Inc. -- news
The categories will be Portraits (draw/paint a portrait of a character in Escape Velocity: Nova), Panorama (draw/paint a scene from EV: Nova depicting 2 or more characters from the game), Space (draw/paint a scene from EV: Nova with ships or celestial bodies as the main focus).
During the times that tournaments are not being run, attendees can walk in and take part in head to head computer games for recreational purposes.
If you are a fan of the game EV Nova, or simply a person who loves Sci-Fi and Gaming conventions then I urge you to set this weekend aside and come to this event.
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 Escape velocity (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Escape Velocity Nova is an expandable card-driven board game based on earlier computer game [1],[2]
This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title.
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Based on classic gameplay from Escape Velocity, the game is played out in 2D with a 3D graphical engine.
The genre of the game is the naval shooter.The game supports two players, has 7 types of units, and has 70 missions to complete.
Game objectives: conquer all enemy major ports, defend your ports, destroy enemy ships, secure transport convoy to the friendly port.
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