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Falling Faster

Posted on March 26, 2015 by dougaj4

A recent paper by  Alexander Klotz of McGill University, Montreal, has stirred a bit of interest in the pop-science press.  The paper looks at the old question of the time taken to fall through a hole passing through the centre … Continue reading →

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The hole through the middle of the Earth – filled with air

Posted on August 13, 2010 by dougaj4

Three air molecules go into a hole,  Well, I say three; could have been four or five.  Could have been nine or ten, doesn’t matter. Could have been fifteen, twenty – fifty. Round it up. Hundred. Let’s go mad, eh … Continue reading →

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The hole through the middle of the Earth – revised transit time

Posted on July 8, 2010 by dougaj4

In the previous post in this series I produced a table of acceleration due to gravity against depth from surface, based on the four layers of the Earth (Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core), assuming a constant density for each layer.  … Continue reading →

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The hole through the middle of the Earth – acceleration

Posted on June 29, 2010 by dougaj4

In my first go at modelling a ball falling through a hole through the middle of the Earth I assumed constant density, and hence the acceleration at any point was proportional to the distance from the centre.  That is of course … Continue reading →

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Using the AlgLib ODE (Runge-Kutta) Solver with Excel

Posted on June 18, 2010 by dougaj4

Or to be more correct, the AlgLib Cash-Karp Solver, Cash-Karp being a refinement of the Runge-Kutta method of solving ordinary differential equations. Solution of differential equations is an iterative process requiring the repeated application of the solver routine followed by evaluation of … Continue reading →

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