Timeline for Gravitational Field from Irregular Object
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| Aug 15, 2013 at 23:17 | comment | added | user27777 | I don't see where you specify the distance from the object at which you would like to know the force. After all, far enough away we are all monopoles. Nor the accuracy needed. Without these 2 facts there is no answer. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 12:18 | comment | added | Johannes | "..tried to see if modeling a human as an infinite wire would work, and of course it's a horrible approximation" -- I would suggest modeling a human using the 'spherical cow approximation'... Kidding aside, surely you can model a human as a short stack of spherical masses? Renders the gravitational computation trivial. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 2:52 | answer | added | Selene Routley | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 0:56 | history | asked | Astrum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |