Between 25 and 5 you clearly have squared something by mistake, I haven't done the calculations but you should check if you didn't consider v0² instead of v0 somewhere...
Hi,
I'm absolutely not an expert in that field but I may have another approach:
Maybe you should consider the second Kepler's law: the conservation of the area in a given time.
The moon travels v0*t in the time t, if you consider a small enough time, you have the small angle approximation...
Hi there,
I found this forum when looking for some computational physics answers (which I found, thank you), and I decided to join the adventure after reading a lot of various interesting threads.
My name is Anton, I am a french student in materials science / nuclear solid state physics and I...