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Re: r^-5 "Orbital Decay"?

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:42 pm
by robly18
Huh. That's kind of cool. Is there any "opposite" to that? A law to the power of a positive number that is also unstable? Is this like positive and negative, having a border where below that everything is stable and above is unstable; or is it just numbers between something and -3 that create stable orbits?

Andy: time to increase the range on the simulator!

Re: r^-5 "Orbital Decay"?

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:46 pm
by A Random Player
robly18 wrote:Huh. That's kind of cool. Is there any "opposite" to that? A law to the power of a positive number that is also unstable? Is this like positive and negative, having a border where below that everything is stable and above is unstable; or is it just numbers between something and -3 that create stable orbits?

Andy: time to increase the range on the simulator!
I think anything below -3 is unstable, and anything above -3 is stable.

Re: r^-5 "Orbital Decay"?

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 5:09 pm
by 19683
robly18 wrote:Huh. That's kind of cool. Is there any "opposite" to that? A law to the power of a positive number that is also unstable? Is this like positive and negative, having a border where below that everything is stable and above is unstable; or is it just numbers between something and -3 that create stable orbits?

Andy: time to increase the range on the simulator!
I tested some more powers, and all powers above -3 are stable. Also, all powers above -2 precess.

I wonder if negative dimensions are possible...