0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
n n sin(1/n)1 0.8414712 0.958851...10 0.998334...100 0.999983
I think Evan is right, some kind of if-then-else statement would be easiest. My absolute value equation above will give you a nice linear progression that you could use, but it would just make all of your equations unnecessarily complicated.As far as your escape velocity calculation, I think there is a problem. Say you start 1000 miles below the surface of the Earth. The gravity at the starting point is less than at the surface, but to actually escape from the planet, one has to travel up the hole to the surface, and continue through the atmosphere and into space. Thus, starting at the bottom of the hole, the escape velocity must be greater than it would be starting at the surface.
The function you're looking for is the Heaviside step function H(x). Or to get the effect you want, 1-H(x).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function
Snap ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth
What do you mean by gravitational feedback? The effects due to nonlinearity of Einstein's field equations is going to be negligible (and is ignored in these graphs).
Quote from: JP on 06/02/2014 00:07:37What do you mean by gravitational feedback? The effects due to nonlinearity of Einstein's field equations is going to be negligible (and is ignored in these graphs).I am not saying they are not negligible.