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  2. Center of mass - Wikipedia

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    The concept of center of gravity or weight was studied extensively by the ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse.He worked with simplified assumptions about gravity that amount to a uniform field, thus arriving at the mathematical properties of what we now call the center of mass.

  3. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    The center of mass, in accordance with the law of conservation of momentum, remains in place. In physics , specifically classical mechanics , the three-body problem is to take the initial positions and velocities (or momenta ) of three point masses that orbit each other in space and calculate their subsequent trajectories using Newton's laws of ...

  4. External ballistics - Wikipedia

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    5H0T Free online web-based ballistics calculator, with data export capability and charting. SAKO Ballistics Archived 2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine Free online ballistic calculatoy by SAKO. Calculator also available as an android app (maybe on iOS also, I don't know) under "SAKO Ballistics" name.

  5. Mass distribution - Wikipedia

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    A mass distribution can be modeled as a measure.This allows point masses, line masses, surface masses, as well as masses given by a volume density function.

  6. Centroid - Wikipedia

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    In physics, if variations in gravity are considered, then a center of gravity can be defined as the weighted mean of all points weighted by their specific weight. In geography, the centroid of a radial projection of a region of the Earth's surface to sea level is the region's geographical center.

  7. Centers of gravity in non-uniform fields - Wikipedia

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    One can further define a unique center of gravity by approximating the field as either parallel or spherically symmetric. The concept of a center of gravity as distinct from the center of mass is rarely used in applications, even in celestial mechanics, where non-uniform fields are important. Since the center of gravity depends on the external ...

  8. Gravity of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The gravity g′ at depth d is given by g′ = g(1 − d/R) where g is acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Earth, d is depth and R is the radius of the Earth. If the density decreased linearly with increasing radius from a density ρ 0 at the center to ρ 1 at the surface, then ρ ( r ) = ρ 0 − ( ρ 0 − ρ 1 ) r / R , and the ...

  9. Geopotential spherical harmonic model - Wikipedia

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    Gravity does not physically exhibit any dipole character and so the integral characterizing n = 1 must be zero. The different coefficients J n , C n m , S n m , are then given the values for which the best possible agreement between the computed and the observed spacecraft orbits is obtained.