FWIW, the problem that he outlined in his first post is one that I wouldn't mind having an answer to myself: given a starting position and velocity relative to a primary star of known mass, provide a straightforward, easy-to-use formula that will tell you where you're going to be after a certain amount of time has passed. Thing is, he mentioned that he doesn't like advanced math, and in particular has largely forgotten everything he ever learned about calculus. So to solve this problem, he's effectively trying to reinvent calculus from the ground up - which is the right way to go, because you need calculus to solve this for anything other than very short time spans. And when times are that short, you can effectively treat it as straight-line movement.
Trying to figure out a solution to this problem is a worthwhile exercise for those who enjoy advanced math; for those who don't, it will quickly turn into an exercise of beating your head into a wall. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
