如何在火星搭建家园
In 1687 Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. It is one of the most important and profound scientific works ever written and includes Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. This law states that all matter exerts a gravitational attraction on all other matter, and provides a simple formula describing that attraction.
1687年,艾萨克·牛顿(Isaac Newton)出版了《自然哲学的数学原理》,即《自然哲学的数学原理》。 它是有史以来最重要和最深刻的科学著作之一,其中包括牛顿的万有引力定律。 该法则规定,所有物质都对所有其他物质施加引力吸引力,并提供描述该吸引力的简单公式。
In this post I will use that formula to calculate how much a person would weigh if they were standing on Mars.
在这篇文章中,我将使用该公式来计算一个人站在火星上的体重。
This is the formula:
这是公式:
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and it tells us that if we know the mass of the two objects we are interested in (for example a planet and a person) and the distance between their centres of mass we can work out the force each exerts on the other. The individual terms are:
它告诉我们,如果我们知道我们感兴趣的两个物体(例如行星和人)的质量以及它们的质心之间的距离,我们就可以算出彼此施加的力。 各个术语是:
F — the force in Newtons each body exerts on the other
F-每个身体施加在另一个物体上的牛顿力
G — the universal gravitational constant, quite literally constant throughout the universe
G —万有引力常数,在整个宇宙中从字面上看都是常数
m1 and m2 — the masses of the two bodies we are interested in
m1和m2-我们感兴趣的两个物体的质量
r — the distance between the centres of mass of the two bodies. Note that this is squared.
r —两个物体的质心之间的距离。 请注意,这是平方的。
I will be using kilograms and metres for masses and distances respectively. However, other units with the same proportions can be used, for example when dealing with two p