In this fairly short paper, we present a computational physics model written in the Python programming language that applies Newtonian mechanical principles to predicting the motion of celestial bodies, which served as our entry in the McGill Physics Hackathon (2021). We also demonstrate the predictive validity of our model by invoking a phenomenological approach, where we compare the predictions of our model to empirical observations regarding the motion of celestial bodies.
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Alexander Ahmann and Rohit Nair (2021). A simple gravitational simulator in Python [Unfinished Paper]. Researchers.One. https://researchers.one/articles/21.11.00002v2
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