{"id":374436,"date":"2017-03-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=11b23d55d0b52b3bb6fbfe64bfda4587"},"modified":"2017-03-07T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","slug":"interstellar-journeys-in-human-lifetimes-numerical-computations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=374436","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar journeys in human lifetimes: numerical computations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to some contemporary accounts, a spacecraft with low acceleration can reach speeds very<br \/>\nclose to the speed of light in just a few years. In support of the teaching of special relativity,<br \/>\nan easy to use software application has been created which calculates the values for travel times<br \/>\nand distances to astronomical objects for such a spacecraft. This spreadsheet application may be<br \/>\nconveniently employed as a basis for class exercises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to some contemporary accounts, a spacecraft with low acceleration can reach speeds very<br \/>\nclose to the speed of light in just a few years. In support of the teaching of special relativity,<br \/>\nan easy to use software application has been created w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}