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mikegrudic / pytreegrav

Fast N-body gravitational force and potential in Python
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Units of positions, masses and accelrations? #3

Closed Jbarkai closed 3 years ago

Jbarkai commented 3 years ago

Hi Mike

What units are the positions and masses expected to be in and what are the units of the returned acceleration?

Kind Regards Jordan

mikegrudic commented 3 years ago

Whatever you want! The acceleration you get will be in units of (your supplied G) * (your supplied masses) / (units of your supplied coordinates)^2