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• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  where my Leibniz homies at

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In the best of all possible worlds.

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I too wish I was in Harambe-1A. ;-;

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  • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In the grocery store, buying cookies

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      what kind of cookies

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You know I learned all that calculus and never learned how it applies to orbits. Can someone connect the dots for me? (In a little more detail than calculate is rates of change.)

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Orbits, it turns out, are mostly just rates of change.

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    • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As long as it took me to really comprehend the rate of change thing and understand how calculus is that, until I read that sentence I didn’t think of all the gravity parts impacting a stellar body and velocity in a direction being impacted by multiple forces. Mean I always knew the story of Newton inventing calculus for that but never clicked exactly how it related. The sad thing is it’s a sort of thing I pondered a bit on but never quite made the connection.

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  • PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So, the heart of the issue is that each object’s path changes continuously, and the forces involved change in kind. Even worse, the objects interact with each other, again continuously - it’s not one-sided.

    If you imagine trying to do it pre-Calculus, some kind of “just map it all out into a grid, etc.”, you can see the problems this continuous change imposes (exercise left for the reader).

    By involving the Stravinsky Interpretation, it quickly becomes clear that the dimorphic superposition destabilizes. The clever reader might object “but what if you fold in all the noodly surfaces to recohere the manifold?”

    And that clever reader would be right! But we didn’t know that until old Dr. Isaac “Zeke” Newton came along and made it that way.

    Some say the devil himself taught him how it’s done, because no one else can read his notes! So keep your eye on old Zeke when you run into him.

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  • Mustakrakish@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Orbit is esspetially free falling past the side of the planet, fast enough that the force of gravity doesn’t completely pull you in. So you kind of fall past the planet, but get curved towards it enough you don’t go flying out away either. The minimum velocity to orbit around a planet with radius r and gravity g is Vorbit = √(rg)

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    An orbit is analogous to position. Trying to predict the position of planets proved difficult to do accurately. People had figured out velocity a long time ago, but no one had ever explored the concept of describing an orbit just from the accelerations of the planets. It turns out acceleration has a fairly simple equation, and in order to get back to the observable thing of orbits, you need to integrate it twice. Newton was the first person to describe acceleration and to use it to predict the motion of planets. Especially for predicting Mars, it was essential because Jupiter is massive enough and close enough to alter its orbit, so simple Kepler’s Laws aren’t sufficient to describe the orbit.

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can someone ELI5 why pre-Newton mathematics wasn’t up to the task?

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  • magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Newton’s laws, including gravity and motion, can be expressed in terms of differential equations.

    Differential equations pretty much requires calculus, which just hadn’t been formalized yet.

    Newton’s laws also provide convincing reasons for the necessity and legitimacy of calculus, by being able to derive orbits from his simple laws.

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the entire world comes to a screeching halt for a plague…

  “guess I’ll develop opticks I dunno shit…”

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Math and Physic”, surely?

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, just the one. They weren’t as confused back then.

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