mars spectacular

[KrazyHorse]

Wrong again. The key isn't acceleration, but gradient of acceleration.

Which is why the sun gravitates more strongly on the earth than the moon does, yet has a smaller effect on tides.

[KrazyHorse]

Anyhow, who needs a calculator or figures? Assuming a relatively equal density between the moon and mars, and a first order expansion in the apparent radius of both bodies wrt radius over distance (small angle approximation) this behaviour drops out immediately.

You have much to learn, grasshopper.

[Kuciwalker]

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[KrazyHorse]

A "thank you, master" will suffice.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Anyhow, who needs a calculator or figures? Assuming a relatively equal density between the moon and mars, and a first order expansion in the apparent radius of both bodies wrt radius over distance (small angle approximation) this behaviour drops out immediately.

You have much to learn, grasshopper.

What does density or anything have to do with it? Mars and the moon behave roughly as point masses gravitationally, so all that matters is the mass and the distance to the earth. The gradiant of the gravitational field should fall off as 1/x^3, shouldn't it? That would put them at equal effects on the tides.

[KrazyHorse]

Reread my post and work it out for yourself. It allows me to solve the problem with fewer unknowns.

[KrazyHorse]

You're thinking about things the brute force way. I'm doing things the elegant way.

That's why I didn't have any decimal places to drop...

[KrazyHorse]

Didn't even need to touch pen to paper...

[Kuciwalker]

Oh, I see what you're saying.

[reds4ever]

F%ck the math, try looking through a telescope!

[Berzerker]

but it is not applicable now

[JohnT]

That's the date (but not year) Laura and I got married.

[Ecthy]

No matter your intelligence and knowledge, KH, you're a b!tch

[Az]

Luckily, the doctorants at my uni aren't behaving like a bunch of stuckup *****es like he does.

Then again, the doctorants I am hanging out with aren't physicists.

[Ecthy]

Honestly, there's someone trying to use his physics knowledge and wit to explain something, and someoen else who claism to know more, maybe vene knows more, exploits the situation to behave like an asshole and play big genius. he could have just corrected him or something, but no, he acted like what he is, a prick. On a forum in the internet, too, how low can a person sink?