Sunday, April 27, 2014

Till We Meet Again...at GPE=0


The following graph shows Gravitational Potential Energy between Earth and the Moon.  The graph has been scaled on the x-axis to show 100 km.


The graph 0.009807*6371*(1-e^(-x/63.71)+0.00162*1737*(e^(-384400/1737))-e^(x/17.37-384400/1737)) shows that beside a zero at x=0 there is another minimum GPE point at x = Orbs, as expected.  This suggests that Orbs, the orbital distance of the Moon, can be calculated.