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I understand that if we apply a force on the axis of rotation of a spinning disc, the torque is in a different direction, and the axis is moved in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the force upon the axis was applied, determined by the right-hand rule. But what if the force...

From what I understand (and also assuming that the mass of one body is much greater than the other), if we had a body performing a circular orbit, and we put more (or less?) energy into the orbit by changing the speed of the body, the orbit will become more eccentric, i.e. elliptical. My...

I'm trying to do this: Suppose I have some iterative function $x_{n+1}=\sin(x_n)$. I want to demonstrate an iteration on a plot by graphing $y=\sin(x)$ and $y=x$, then drawing lines from the graph of x to the graph of sin x, like in this page...

I see. It works great, thank you very much!

I'm trying to build a simple function that takes 2 arguments. Basically, I want it to do this: x(n+1)=a*sin[x(n)] and generate a list of x0,x1,x2 etc. up to x(n) like NestList does, starting from x0=1.0 So I want to make a list of these iterations, where a is a constant of my choice...