Some reaction rockets can at least temporarily provide enough acceleration to overcome Earth's gravity and could thus provide linear acceleration to emulate Earth's g-force.
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Where \ omega is the angular velocity of the station, r is its radius, and a is linear acceleration at any point along its perimeter.
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Nevertheless, constant linear acceleration is desirable since in addition to providing artificial gravity it could theoretically provide relatively short flight times around the solar system.
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Although the perception is fairly accurate when subjects are exposed to angular acceleration in roll, and during linear acceleration along the body transversal and longitudinal axes.
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The vestibule is a region of the inner ear which contains the saccule and the utricle, each of which contain a macula to detect linear acceleration.
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Changes in linear acceleration, angular acceleration, and gravity are detected by the vestibular system and the proprioceptive receptors, and then compared in the brain with visual information.
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Stimulation of the otolith organs occurs when gravitational forces or linear accelerations cause movement of the otolith membrane, the otoliths, and the hair cells of the macula.
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But to return to my original question, is translational acceleration basically the same thing as linear acceleration ? talk 14 : 02, 16 April 2011 ( UTC)
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:: Just incidentally, in aviation such high G-forces are usually associated with breaks rather than linear acceleration ( even the space shuttle doesn't accelerate at 5g ).
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The macula is also sensitive to linear acceleration as the inertia possessed by the statoconia can also shift the gelatinous layer during increases and decreases in linear velocity.
