GreigHuth / Solar

Rudamentary simlulation of the first 4 planets of the solar system

Solar

Rudamentary simlulation of the first 4 planets of the solar system using beeman algorithm for approximating position. Generates a little animation of the simulation and saves the Kinetic energy and Gravitational potential of the system to the corresponding files.

Dependencies

• python 2 (any version)
• numpy (any version)
• matplotlib (any version)
• virtualenv
• pip

install guide

set-up virtualenv

virtualenv -p (which python) .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

then navigate to directory and run python main.py

Things to add and issues

• add the rest of the planets (although apparently that messes the whole thing up
• there is an issue if you are using ubuntu for windows, installing matplotlib through pip using ubuntu for windows causes a problem with the window manager and it doesnt display anything.