Simulating Gravity (Or Any Attractive Force)

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• Category: Flash/Math & Physics

• Submitted on: 2008-04-02 11:21:41

• Submitted By: Devesh Khanna

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Here are the steps I took to make this.

1. I created a sun movieclip and an earth movieclip and placed them on the stage with instance names ball1 and ball2 respectively.
2. I used FlashGuru's function that determines the distance between two movieclips and returns a distance object (with a slight modification).
3. Using the info in the distance object I determined what the velocities and accelerations of the bodies.    More detail...

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