| ... | ... | @@ -12,12 +12,6 @@ Box of size 12cm. Things go crazy when the particles drift off the edge of the b |
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A line of particles with a total mass of 1 solar mass is frozen in place. Another particle is put into a circular orbit at 1AU in a plane normal to the line, with the plane bisecting the line. Below I show the change in kinetic, potential and total energy, which should all stay the same.
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eta = 0.01 and epsilon = 0.01
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First plot is simply the two-body problem again
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| ... | ... | @@ -31,11 +25,21 @@ First plot is simply the two-body problem again |
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Here I show the effect of decreasing eta on conservation of total energy (epsilon = 0.01)
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Same test but instead I put the orbiting particle in the same plane as the line
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Changing the mass of the orbiting particle has no effect:
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Another set-up.
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3 frozen particles, each with mass of 1/3 solar mass, in an equilateral triangle of side-length 1 AU. One of the sides is on the x-axis. An orbiting particle is given an initial velocity equal to that in the previous example.
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is in-line with the x-axis.
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