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pixelpuffin
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I was writing a script to help me calculate gravitation and various other things when i noticed i don't know how to calculate this
I need to calculate the kinetic energy of an object being pulled towards a second object until they meet knowing only the weight of the objects, the distance of the objects, and the distance at which they meet and thus stop accelerating towards each other
with a very large object like Earth accelerating a small object like a football you can assume gravity to be constant, but in this case the distance will change to a small fraction of what it was
I'd appreciate if you also knew if this equation translates to other forces
I need to calculate the kinetic energy of an object being pulled towards a second object until they meet knowing only the weight of the objects, the distance of the objects, and the distance at which they meet and thus stop accelerating towards each other
with a very large object like Earth accelerating a small object like a football you can assume gravity to be constant, but in this case the distance will change to a small fraction of what it was
I'd appreciate if you also knew if this equation translates to other forces