Time Delay - Revision history

Stefanido: singular

2010-03-24T20:07:22Z

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Stefanido at 19:38, 24 March 2010

2010-03-24T19:38:11Z

Stefanido: shit, it doesn't work...

2010-03-24T14:53:37Z

shit, it doesn't work...

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'''Time delay''' is the amount of time it takes for a transmitted message to be received.
There is always some time delay in any communication, however, the issue becomes more pronounced with
distance, and becomes noticeable the further one ventures from the source of the message.

==Calculating Time Delay==
[[Radios|Radio]] transmissions do not travel instantaneously; they travel at the speed of
light, which we will take to be the speed of light in a vacuum or approximately

<math>c = 300 000 000 m/s</math>

So if a radio transmission comes from a distance ''d'' away, it will take ''t'' seconds
for the transmission to reach us, where

<math>t = \frac{d,c}</math>

which, as you can see is just a rearrangement of the basic definition that velocity is displacement over time.

Because this is a simulation, we have no need of exact values, so we will
assume that the Earth is

<math>D_E = 150 000 000 000 \text{m} <\math>

from the Sun, and that Jupiter is

<math>D_J = 780 000 000 000 \text{m} <\math>

from the Sun such that the distance between the two planets is

<math>D = 630 000 000 000 \text{m} <\math>

<pre>
[Sun]----De----[Earth]-------------D----------------[Jupiter]
---------------------Dj------------------------<\pre>

Using these numbers, we can calculate the maximum time delay for a transmission
coming from Jupiter to Earth in the arrangement shown above. Note that the delay would be greater if the Earth were
on the other side of the Sun from Jupiter.

The maximum time delay is then

<math>T = \frac{D,c}
T = 2100 \text{s}
T = 35 \text{min}<\math>

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 ==Calculating Time Delay==
-[[Radios|Radio]] transmissions do not travel instantaneously; they travel at the speed of
+[[Radio]] transmissions do not travel instantaneously; they travel at the speed of
 light, which we will take to be the speed of light in a vacuum or approximately

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-'''Time delay''' is the amount of time it takes for a transmitted message to be received.
+{{Wipuser|user=[[User:Stefanido|-- Stefanido]] 15:38, 24 March 2010 (EDT)}}'''Time delay''' is the amount of time it takes for a transmitted message to be received.
 There is always some time delay in any communication, however, the issue becomes more pronounced with
 distance, and becomes noticeable the further one ventures from the source of the message.