AiS Challenge Team Abstract
Team Number: 030
School Name: Farmington High School
Area of Science: Orbital Mechanics
Project Title: In Orbit
With hundreds of functional artificial satellites, powering today's world
of technology, an important issue faced by many scientists, is the problem
of the mechanics of orbit. The objective of this experiment is to
scientifically determine the changes of orbits of objects in space. A
study of orbital mechanics must be conducted in order to achieve this
goal. Physics, in collaboration with Calculus, will be used to calculate
differential equations for each position. Velocity and acceleration will
be determined in order to sufficiently represent the centrifugal and
non-centrifugal positions of each object. C++ will be used to graphically
demonstrate the orbits of these objects.
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