Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: November 19, 2011, 11:40:11 AM »And as far as I know Steve glossed over (for simplicity of mechanics) the power of (2/3) needed to go from volume to (rough) area. So a ship with 8x the HS has 8x the cross section, not 4x. On the same front, the range vs. power doesn't follow the expected power law behaviors either (i.e. returned signal strength should go down like at least the square of the range) - the range is linear with the power. Not a big deal, just making sure people don't get confused when they don't see the answer you'd get for radar....
John
I'll probably revisit this for Newtonian Aurora so active sensors use the actual diamater of the ship rather than its mass and the returned signal strength is also modelled correctly
Steve