8 FIGURES
(cont.)
Figure 2. The difference
in falling rates as a function of angle separation in degrees.
NOTE: it zeroes at 60
degrees, when all 3 bodies are at the vertices of an equilateral triangle.
NOTE ALSO: the spike
upward (hard to see) at 0 degrees is the Mathcad false 0 for the
singularity at 0 degrees.
NOTE TOO: this falling
rate difference would in fact be zero if the masses of the
“lighter”
and “heavier” bodies were equal, since it
is plotted from the falling
rate equation given earlier.
(Plotted with Mathcad
2000.)
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