Mass driver constrained by a limited amount of onboard spacecraft power. Thrust and momentum from exhaust, per unit mass expelled, scales up linearly with its velocity (momentum = mv), yet kinetic energy and energy input requirements scale up faster with velocity squared (kinetic energy = mv). Too low exhaust velocity would excessively increase propellant mass needed under the rocket equation, with too high a fraction of energy going into accelerating propellant not used yet. Higher exhaust velocity has both benefit and tradeoff, increasing propellant usage efficiency (more momentum per unit mass of propellant expelled) but decreasing thrust and the current rate of
Division by zero cookie in half. The problem with 5 cookies and 0 people cannot be solved in any way that preserves the meaning of "divides". Another way of looking at division by zero is that division can always be checked using multiplication. Considering the example above, setting "x" = , if "x" equals ten divided by zero, then "x" times zero equals ten, but there is no "x" that, when multiplied by zero, gives ten (or any number other than zero). If instead of "x" = we have "x" = , then every "x" satisfies the question 'what number "x", multiplied by