Message from @marten.aap2.0
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@🎃Oakheart🎃 still thete?
There*
Yes
stop asking the same thing over and over
claiming no one has answered you
Make a 100 meter tall portable vacuum chamber and test it in multiple places around the world
Then we will consider the info
How satellites go into orbit
this is how we were taught satellites work in one of my first physics courses
basically imagine shooting a canonball farther and farther until at some point it doesn't hit land but basically keeps missing Earth
so it's basically in constant freefall
if that were true, shouldn't its velocity be constantly increasing?
esp with almost no friction since it's outside of the atmosphere
just occurred to me the other day....
No because the center of gravity is changing.
It's velocity DOES constantly increase. But it's relative speed remains the same because it's constantly changing velocity is always at right angles to the center of mass it's orbiting.
It’s velocity does not constantly increase, I’m confused on what you’re trying to say, drewski
An orbiting object has a constantly changing velocity.
Because it's constantly changing directions
velocity is a vector, speed is a scalar
speed stays the same
velocity changes
Yes but velocity doesn’t increase, it just changes
V is speed in a direction. V can change without speed changing.
thats what i said
partially correct
the (angular) velocity stays the same, but the direction changes
To: partially correct
the (angular) speed stays the same, but the direction changes
@marten.aap2.0 is what you originally said
Ok but I was talking to drewski
I might have worded my original statement poorly. The velocity is constantly *changing* not constantly increasing. It can continue to accelerate while maintaining the same speed .
you cant correct someone then change what you said after being corrected
Sorry about that
But I wasn’t wrong, Chad?
marten
I’m so confused
Oh okay
Now I understand, the gear dude
Sorry, I’m slow sometimes
marten tried to correct someone but made a mistake, then went and changed wht he said
I'm still not sure why the magnitude of the velocity would not constantly increase. if i use the cannonball thought experiment.