You know I learned all that calculus and never learned how it applies to orbits. Can someone connect the dots for me? (In a little more detail than calculus is rates of change.)
As long as it took me to really comprehend the rate of change thing and understand how calculus is that, until I read that sentence I didn’t think of all the gravity parts impacting a stellar body and velocity in a direction being impacted by multiple forces. Mean I always knew the story of Newton inventing calculus for that but never clicked exactly how it related. The sad thing is it’s a sort of thing I pondered a bit on but never quite made the connection.
Orbit is esspetially free falling past the side of the planet, fast enough that the force of gravity doesn’t completely pull you in. So you kind of fall past the planet, but get curved towards it enough you don’t go flying out away either. The minimum velocity to orbit around a planet with radius r and gravity g is Vorbit = √(rg) I believe
You know I learned all that calculus and never learned how it applies to orbits. Can someone connect the dots for me? (In a little more detail than calculus is rates of change.)
Orbits, it turns out, are mostly just rates of change.
As long as it took me to really comprehend the rate of change thing and understand how calculus is that, until I read that sentence I didn’t think of all the gravity parts impacting a stellar body and velocity in a direction being impacted by multiple forces. Mean I always knew the story of Newton inventing calculus for that but never clicked exactly how it related. The sad thing is it’s a sort of thing I pondered a bit on but never quite made the connection.
Orbit is esspetially free falling past the side of the planet, fast enough that the force of gravity doesn’t completely pull you in. So you kind of fall past the planet, but get curved towards it enough you don’t go flying out away either. The minimum velocity to orbit around a planet with radius r and gravity g is Vorbit = √(rg) I believe