Originally posted by King Kandy
I haven't taken physics in forever, and trying to do solve algebra with typing is a complete mess every time. Maybe i'll look over it later, but your guess is probably as good as mine--we know for a fact that your answer is wrong, but I can't identify at first glance where the part that was wrong is.
Thanks for the thought.
Yeah, that math is something we did, first semester, in physics...it's been forever since I've used G.
And, definitely, it's wrong. I'm missing or need to divide a factor of 10 9 at the very least), I think, because of some math. I woked, backwards, from what my weight would be on Jupiter compared to Earth. I used a common number I googled on the internet. It said that I would experience a force, on Earth, of 982.2xx kg/s/s, meaning, I was off by a factor of 10 (cause, it should have been close to 98, (ten times the gravity), not 982 (yes, I know working it backwards and having a factor of 10 would result in 9.806, but the math fluctuates, depending on which radius you're using because it's (Jupiter) an oblate spheroid.))
So, yeah, at the very least, I have a factor of 10 wrong, in there somewhere, not to mention to s/s portion I mentioned in my calc.
I could just look it up in one of my old physics books, but I's packed up, at home, somewhere, cause I just moved.
Anyway, if you get a wild hair, check to see what I did wrong. the Algebra portion of it is fine...it's doing the final math part that I'm screwing up on.