What does the Sun and moon have in common? (physics)

K.I.L.E.R

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Other than the fact they are both in space.

Sun is a large body off mass which composites burning gasses and the moon is nothing more than rock.

What I need to know are what properties do both entities have in common.

Thanks.
 
It's kind of a meaningless question as you've phrased it.

The Sun the The Moon are (roughly) the same age, and formed from the same protostellar nebula. That's about the only thing they have in common. Oh, they're both approximately spherical too.
 
nutball said:
It's kind of a meaningless question as you've phrased it.

The Sun the The Moon are (roughly) the same age, and formed from the same protostellar nebula. That's about the only thing they have in common. Oh, they're both approximately spherical too.

So if I would class both of those entities under a single(short) description, what would it be?
 
K.I.L.E.R said:
nutball said:
It's kind of a meaningless question as you've phrased it.


The Sun the The Moon are (roughly) the same age, and formed from the same protostellar nebula. That's about the only thing they have in common. Oh, they're both approximately spherical too.

So if I would class both of those entities under a single(short) description, what would it be?

Heavenly bodies.

;)
 
Anything shorter?
It can't be too long in length. I could use your description but I would like something a little shorter.

Thanks.


DiGuru said:
K.I.L.E.R said:
nutball said:
It's kind of a meaningless question as you've phrased it.


The Sun the The Moon are (roughly) the same age, and formed from the same protostellar nebula. That's about the only thing they have in common. Oh, they're both approximately spherical too.

So if I would class both of those entities under a single(short) description, what would it be?

Heavenly bodies.

;)
 
K.I.L.E.R said:
Anything shorter?
It can't be too long in length. I could use your description but I would like something a little shorter.

Thanks.

Whys that? Sounds like you are trying to solve a crossword puzzle or something! :LOL:
 
How's about Earth? Or are we just mutual aquaintances? :|

EDIT: How about celestial or astral bodies? Or they're both spherical?
 
Huge? Spherical? Massive?

Is this for a crossword?


Xmas said:
Everyone knows that both revolve around the earth :D
So they're satellites ;)

Geocentrical Universe for the winnar. Fight the power!
 
Nah, I just want to be able to think of a name I can put the Sun and Moon classes under an inheritence model.

If I can't think of a name I just name it something like "GayPorn" or "Stars" and place a "FIXME:" in the JDoc header, so I can fix it when I think of a name.
So far I have the name "Stars", which isn't correct scientific terminology.

Some basic characteristics are:
Mass,
Centripetal force.
All I can come up with.

I'm doing real time physics on my aquarium assigment on things like the sun and moon.
 
Just draw the damn #@$@ fish.

I assume your gonna make the sun orbit the earth if so call them satallites. If you actually gonna do a n-body simulation just call them bodies.

If you are doing the the whole simulation are you gonna do them as point charges? or will you do them as volume? if so are you gonna do them as non-uniform bodies (i.e. non constant mass density ). Are you gonna have theses bodies destort under gravity ( surely the sun should )?

Do something useful with your tallents go hack rage3d or nvnews and put PWNED by and then the other site.
 
Your terminology is lost on me. :)

I'm just adding objects, apply rules, do behaviours, apply Newtonian physics, apply basic spacial physics like centripetal force, apply basic quantum mechanics to the particles that make the fish and water.

It's due in on the 6th of next month.
Don't have much time.
 
Completely non-helpful to you, but has anyone else noticed that the sun and the moon are exactly the same size when viewed from here? They have different masses, sizes, constitutions, and stuff, so I don't think there can be any reason apart from coincidence. :?

Does anyone here know the reason why?

Oh, and for anyone else apart from you, K.I.L.E.R, I think 'bodies' would do. But you'd just see nakedness and stuff whenever you read that. How about spacebodies?
 
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