Rebound Solar System
First install with pip: add !pip install rebound in your jupyter notebook. Then you should be able to do import rebound in your notebook to import this package. See this website for more info about installing and testing rebound.
To make your own solar system model, you can check out the NASA Horizon interface and the Starman example. This pings the NASA Horizon telescope to get the current positions of all the planets.
EXTENTIONS: Can you plot Kepler data using this package? (Hint: check this out.)
Materials
- Lesson 5 - Kepler’s Planets, Orbits in 3D & Other Python Solvers: Choose your own adventure: (view,
source)
- Lecture 5, Part 1 - Kepler's Orbits: (view,
source, present)
- Lecture 5, Part 2 - Multibody Motion in 3D: (view,
source, present)
- Optional - Galaxy Multibody Motion in 3D: (view,
source, present)
- Rebound Galaxies: (view,
source)
- Notebook Optional_animations_lesson05:
(view,
download)
- Notebook Optional_galaxySimulations_3d_lesson05:
(view,
download)
- Notebook Part1_programming_readWriteData_keplersData_lesson05:
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download)
- Notebook Part2_planetsIn3D_lesson05:
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download)
- Notebook Untitled:
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download)
- Notebook inClass_lesson05:
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download)