Kepler’s Equation
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ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Theta minus sin theta? What does that give you
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Comment on turkey pot pies
ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Theta minus sin theta? What does that give you
Kepler’s Equation
TheOakTree@beehaw.org 8 months ago
gives you the area of a sector circle, like a slice of pie.
is the side-angle-side formula for the area of a triangle.
We know that the triangle has two sides that are equal to the radius, so we replace side1×side2 with r^2. Since the area of the arc segment is equal to the area of a sector minus the triangle encompassed by the sector, we can subtract triangle area from sector area to get
ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Is theta in radians? That’s the only way I see this working
TheOakTree@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Yeah, it’s in radians. The degree version has a less clean format.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 months ago
That makes way more sense, I was so confused