ext_17567 ([identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jwgh 2005-06-25 04:16 pm (UTC)

Re: Is it computing orbits correctly?

It's not a harmonic attractor (which would be Hooke's law, force increasing linearly with distance); looks more like a simple attempt to do inverse-square gravity with Euler integration. It has typical step-size problems at short distances.

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