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Thanks @nrqed, I did have numerical values and eventually solved it numerically.

I should add that I took length of side to be s = a (rather than x as roam did). I also had used opposite signs for my z-axis values from roam (i.e., I took +ve z direction to be upward, so Fmag was +ve and Fg -ve) so have an exponential with a positive argument. And I had called my notational...

Almost a year later and I have this exact same problem and am stuck in the same spot. Did you ever work your way past that point @roam?

Futurama and it's not even close. It's like all the best bits of all the best worlds. But better.

I've always thought levitation is a wildly underappreciated skill and should be taught in schools. In a nice gentle hover 50-70ft off the ground one is safe from pretty much anything except peregrine falcon attack, and those can easily be bought off as long as one remembers to pack a satchel...

Ok, I'm with you now, sorry it took me two tries, mind's a little numb at the moment. Your advice is much appreciated, I'll have another go with it in mind.

Thanks for the prompt reply Simon but I'm not sure I follow. Haven't I covered the angular velocities/frequencies aspect in the second paragraph of my first post? Or are you saying I would be better to use the term "observer" rather than "the point on the planetary surface" to streamline it? As...

When I researched the answer I mostly found responses which leaned toward Kepler's 3rd Law, but I can't get my head around how the 3rd law can be used to describe an orbit with a radius which must be necessarily be fixed at the centre of a planet. Other answers I found talked about how an...

Hi all, I feel like I have the answer, or am at least in the ballpark, but I'm not confident in this area and so I also feel like there should be a more concise, or "beautiful" way to express it. Am I missing something? 1. Homework Statement Explain why the orbit of a geostationary satellite...

Thanks Matteo, that's somewhat familiar but I'm so rusty on this stuff it's not funny.

I like physics because it's the branch of the sciences which provides me the most awe.

Reading "Atmospheric Thermodynamics" I'm stumped almost as soon as I've started. I've probably bitten off more than I can chew and this also might even be more of a math question than a physics one but where I'm stuck is where they "simplify" from: mv . dv/dt = -mgv . ez (where ez is a unit...

Cheers mate (as we say when we're not saying "kia ora bro"), I'm always happy to hear folks had a happy time here. I'm only stage 2 so not 100% on my major yet but leaning upward. Toward The Cosmos.

Hi guys, I'm an undergrad student from Auckland, New Zealand, picking up a degree this year that I started but never finished in the late 90s. Better late than never. I hope.