Re:Orbital Mechanics – How do rockets get to where they're h...
by aw1621107 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:41PM
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Hello, and welcome to Hacker News! Glad to see you here, and thank you for taking the time to respond!
I hope I didn't come off badly there; I'm good at nitpicking, but that's small potatoes compared to taking the time to write out a full blog post.
Simplifications were perfectly understandable given the subject matter, but I think that care should be taken to try to minimize the potential for future confusion. The force/velocity-related stuff in particular I think is important to get right, since those are foundational to understanding the physics. Much of the rest, I think is understandable and a good place to start.
I hope I didn't come off badly there; I'm good at nitpicking, but that's small potatoes compared to taking the time to write out a full blog post.
Simplifications were perfectly understandable given the subject matter, but I think that care should be taken to try to minimize the potential for future confusion. The force/velocity-related stuff in particular I think is important to get right, since those are foundational to understanding the physics. Much of the rest, I think is understandable and a good place to start.
Thanks again, and hope you keep writing!