[Mesa-users] Gravitational Potential Energy Calculation

Pablo Marchant pamarca at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 02:43:27 EDT 2020


Hi Kenny,

it might help if you describe what you're trying to accomplish.

Cheers

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:28 AM Kenny Van <kvan at ualberta.ca> wrote:

> Hi Josiah,
>
> Is there another hook that can be used to change the equation for
> gravitational potential energy or is changing G in cgrav the only way?
>
> Best
>
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 17:22, Josiah Schwab <jwschwab at ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kenny,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone knows which use_other_{hook} I should be
>>> looking at in modifying how the gravitational potential energy is
>>> calculated. If I understand it correctly use_other_cgrav changes the
>>> gravitational acceleration.
>>>
>>
>> Other cgrav changes G (Newton's constant), so it changes the potential
>> energy as well.
>>
>> Josiah
>>
>
>
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> Kenny X. Van
> Ph.D. Candidate in Astrophysics
> Department of Physics
> CCIS 2-108, University of Alberta
> Website: https://kvan1231.github.io/
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Pablo Marchant Campos
M.Sc on Astrophysics, Universidad Católica de Chile
PhD on Astrophysics, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn
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