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====== Surface Gravity Calculator ====== | ====== Surface Gravity Calculator ====== | ||
- | Want to know what the surface gravity is on any celestial object? You just need to know it's mass in terms of Earth masses (e.g. Earth = 1, Venus = 0.815, Mars = 0.107 etc.) and it's radius. This online | + | Want to know what the surface gravity is on any celestial object? You just need to know it's mass in terms of Earth masses (e.g. Earth = 1, Venus = 0.815, Mars = 0.107 etc.) and it's radius. This calculator will do the rest. |
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| Radius of your planet|< | | Radius of your planet|< | ||
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- | The result shows the gravity in terms of Earth gravities (1 Earth gravity = 1g (aka gee)).\\ | + | The result shows the gravity in terms of Earth gravities (1 Earth gravity = 1g).\\ |
- | A result of 1g = 1 Earth gravity, or put another way 100% Earth gravity\\ | + | A result of 1 gravity |
- | A result of 1.5g = 150% Earth gravity | + | A result of 1.5 gravity |
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+ | This function is included in [[blog: | ||
<JS> | <JS> | ||
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g = g/9.8; // newtons to kilograms | g = g/9.8; // newtons to kilograms | ||
g = Math.round(g*100)/ | g = Math.round(g*100)/ | ||
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} | } | ||
</JS> | </JS> |
blog/articles/software/surface_gravity_calc.1552532683.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/03/14 03:04 by Phil Ide