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Big Big Ron
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Homework Statement
Hey, so basically I'm doing Advanced Higher Computing Science at school (It's a Scottish qualification), and I need to build an orbital simulator in VB.Net 2008 (nothing too fancy), but I'm having issues planning it all out. I'm only going to have one planet orbiting a star, so I figured I would need to enter the mass of the star, the distance from the planet to the star, and also the initial velocity of the planet. From there I could go on to calculate the gravitational force acting on the planet, using F = G*M1*M2/r^2 , then find the acceleration of the planet using a = f/m. After that I can use v = u + at to calculate the new horizontal and vertical velocities of the planet, then use them to find the new position of the planet, and then finally use the pen to draw it out. Is this approach any good? Some help of the structure of the program would be hugely appreciated, I'm not asking for the exact code, just some indication of the different methods and procedures I'll need to make it work. Thanks!:)
Homework Equations
- Given that I know the new velocities, how would I find the new position of the planet? Could I use this equation : x2 = x1 + (Vx * t) I read it somewhere that this would be the way to do it, however I am unsure if it is correct.
3. Part 1 is kinda my attempt I guess.