Recent content by Athgar

That would typically not be the case How would I go about solving for the acceleration and position as a function of time?

I'll have to show my ignorance, what is meant by a simple configuration of masses?

Gravitational attraction from the other bodies in the plane

An object is at a known point in a 2D plane, traveling at a known speed in a known direction In the plane are other objects with known mass and location With this information, how do you work out where the object will be located one second later?