POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Inverse Square Law : Re: Inverse Square Law Server Time
29 Jul 2024 14:12:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Inverse Square Law  
From: Lutz-Peter Hooge
Date: 29 Sep 2002 10:55:17
Message: <3d971455$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3d9710d0@news.povray.org>, war### [at] tagpovrayorg says...

>   Orbits caused by gravitational or magnetic forces are very very
> unstable.

This is only true for systems with three or more bodies.
A system of two bodies will always be stable I think (in real life, a 
simulation of it may be unstable, especially if computed using the Euler 
algorithm).

Lutz-Peter


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