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Initial vs Constant Orbital Velocity
I am working on some basic physics simulation for a game and need to simulate gravity. I have a system working that is behaving more or less correctly so far, but I want to see if I can send a ...
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Surface normal on the earth to the sun at a given point in time
How complicated is it to calculate a surface normal on the spherical approximation of the earths surface pointing towards the sun at a given point in time?
What I try do is to highlight a small area ...
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How does solar activity affect the ISS?
Currently the sun is launching some intense solar flares.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/17/solar-flares-northern-lights-uk
Th article I've linked also mentions how a "coronal mass ...
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How to determine velocity and mass of asteroid 2011 CQ1
As you may have seen, a small asteroid had a near miss with the earth a few days ago.
As a physics teacher teaching momentum, I think this could be an excellent problem for my students, however, I ...
