Meters per second squared
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- Heinlein:Robert:Have Space Suit Will Travel:40:Almost halfway to the Moon, I'd say (Neal Stephenson)
- Gedankenexperiment (Jeremy Bornstein)
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In SI units, the units of acceleration.
Describing Escape velocity using Robert Heinlein's Have Space Suit Will Travel that the ship is undergoing a constant acceleration toward the moon at 1 gee (G), which is to say, about 9.8 meters per second squared.
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