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Earth Moon system orbiting around the Sun and VPython. Full article at http://www.firsttimeprogrammer.blogspot.com/2014/12/earth-moon-system-orbiting-around-sun.html
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import math | |
from visual import * | |
# Data in units according to the International System of Units | |
G = 6.67 * math.pow(10,-11) | |
# Mass of the Earth | |
ME = 5.973 * math.pow(10,24) | |
# Mass of the Moon | |
MM = 7.347 * math.pow(10,22) | |
# Mass of the Sun | |
MS = 1.989 * math.pow(10,30) | |
# Radius Earth-Moon | |
REM = 384400000 | |
# Radius Sun-Earth | |
RSE = 149600000000 | |
# Force Earth-Moon | |
FEM = G*(ME*MM)/math.pow(REM,2) | |
# Force Earth-Sun | |
FES = G*(MS*ME)/math.pow(RSE,2) | |
# Angular velocity of the Moon with respect to the Earth (rad/s) | |
wM = math.sqrt(FEM/(MM * REM)) | |
# Velocity v of the Moon (m/s) | |
vM = wM*REM | |
print("Angular velocity of the Moon with respect to the Earth: ",wM," rad/s") | |
print("Velocity v of the Moon: ",vM/1000," km/s") | |
# Angular velocity of the Earth with respect to the Sun(rad/s) | |
wE = math.sqrt(FES/(ME * RSE)) | |
# Velocity v of the Earth (m/s) | |
vE = wE*RSE | |
print("Angular velocity of the Earth with respect to the Sun: ",wE," rad/s") | |
print("Velocity v of the Earth: ",vE/1000," km/s") | |
# Initial angular position | |
theta0 = 0 | |
# Position at each time | |
def positionMoon(t): | |
theta = theta0 + wM * t | |
return theta | |
def positionEarth(t): | |
theta = theta0 + wE * t | |
return theta | |
def fromDaysToS(d): | |
s = d*24*60*60 | |
return s | |
def fromStoDays(s): | |
d = s/60/60/24 | |
return d | |
def fromDaysToh(d): | |
h = d * 24 | |
return h | |
# Graphical parameters | |
print("\nSimulation Earth-Moon-Sun motion\n") | |
days = 365 | |
seconds = fromDaysToS(days) | |
print("Days: ",days) | |
print("Seconds: ",seconds) | |
v = vector(0.5,0,0) | |
E = sphere(pos=vector(3,0,0),color=color.cyan,radius=.3,make_trail=True) | |
M = sphere(pos=E.pos+v,color=color.white,radius=0.1,make_trail=True) | |
S = sphere(pos=vector(0,0,0),color=color.yellow,radius=1) | |
t = 0 | |
thetaTerra1 = 0 | |
dt = 5000 | |
dthetaE = positionEarth(t+dt)- positionEarth(t) | |
dthetaM = positionMoon(t+dt) - positionMoon(t) | |
print("delta t:",dt,"seconds. Days:",fromStoDays(dt),"hours:",fromDaysToh(fromStoDays(dt)),sep=" ") | |
print("Variation angular position of the Earth:",dthetaE,"rad/s that's to say",degrees(dthetaE),"degrees",sep=" ") | |
print("Variation angular position of the Moon:",dthetaM,"rad/s that's to say",degrees(dthetaM),"degrees",sep=" ") | |
while t < seconds: | |
rate(50) | |
thetaEarth = positionEarth(t+dt)- positionEarth(t) | |
thetaMoon = positionMoon(t+dt) - positionMoon(t) | |
# Rotation only around z axis (0,0,1) | |
E.pos = rotate(E.pos,angle=thetaEarth,axis=(0,0,1)) | |
v = rotate(v,angle=thetaMoon,axis=(0,0,1)) | |
M.pos = E.pos + v | |
t += dt |
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