Good evening, all. We hope this post finds you well. We regret to inform you that because of litigatory threats, Kradigan, unfortunately,...

ADHITYA Stars are defined by their ability to fuse hydrogen atoms together into helium atoms. Nuclear fusion not only keeps stars from...

ADHITYA All matter emits some light as a consequence of its temperature. For relatively cool objects like people and the Earth, that...

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ADHITYA Rocketry, as it turns out, is extremely inefficient. Rockets need to be massive to carry even a small amount of payload into...

ADHITYA The solutions to the two-body problem are orbits, in which the two masses follow conic sections through space relative to their...

ADHITYA The simplest possible gravitational system consists of two point particles (idealized masses with zero volume) in a vacuum,...

Russell Once again, we're using pdfs because Wix hates LaTeX. But, enjoy!

ADHITYA The following post lays out the groundwork for an explanation of the force of gravity. It starts with the rationale for why a...