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    The document describes a computational physics project to simulate and plot the orbits of planets in the solar system up to Jupiter using numerical integration methods. The key steps are: 1) Writing a C++ code to read initial planet data from a file, integrate orbits over 10 years using Euler and RK2 methods, and output results to a file. 2) Comparing Earth's orbit using Euler vs RK2 methods. 3) Plotting all planet orbits on the same xy plane plot for 10 years, but extending it to 15 years to fully capture Jupiter's orbit.

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    The document describes a computational physics project to simulate and plot the orbits of planets in the solar system up to Jupiter using numerical integration methods. The key steps are: 1) Writing a C++ code to read initial planet data from a file, integrate orbits over 10 years using Euler and RK2 methods, and output results to a file. 2) Comparing Earth's orbit using Euler vs RK2 methods. 3) Plotting all planet orbits on the same xy plane plot for 10 years, but extending it to 15 years to fully capture Jupiter's orbit.

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    The document describes a computational physics project to simulate and plot the orbits of planets in the solar system up to Jupiter using numerical integration methods. The key steps are: 1) Writing a C++ code to read initial planet data from a file, integrate orbits over 10 years using Euler and RK2 methods, and output results to a file. 2) Comparing Earth's orbit using Euler vs RK2 methods. 3) Plotting all planet orbits on the same xy plane plot for 10 years, but extending it to 15 years to fully capture Jupiter's orbit.

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    BS-(PHY)-02

    Computational Physics
    Task 4
    Plotting Solar System up to Jupiter, using RK-2 method

    Group Members:
    Zainab[211001003]
    M. Harees [211001010]

    Instructor: Dr. Fazeel Mehmud


    Data Files of 2002, April 01
    I) Write down a C++ code that reads in initial
    data from a file an array and integrates the
    orbit of each planet using Euler’s (only for
    planet Earth) and RK2 methods for 10 years.
    Subsequent out put data of each step should
    also be written in an output file.
    The .cxx file of code is attached with the task,
    submitted on google classroom.
    II) Make a comparison of two methods for the
    orbit or Earth.
    Euler v/s RK2 (Earth)

    Euler
    Euler
    Euler
    RK2
    RK2
    Horizontal Distance from sun (Au)

    RK2
    1.0
    0.5
    0.0
    −1.0 −0.5

    −1.0 −0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0

    Horizontal Distance from sun (Au)


    III) Plot the orbits of all the planets in xy plane
    in a single plot.
    First we estimated data for 10 years, but this
    caused a problem that the orbit of Jupiter was
    incomplete in 10 years.

    Solar System (time step=0.001 for 10 years


    Verticle Distance with sun at origin (Au)

    4
    2
    0
    −2
    −4

    −4 −2 0 2 4

    Horizontal distance with sun at origin (Au)


    This is because Jupiter orbits the sun in around 12
    earth years. Thus we estimated the orbits for 15
    years.

    SolarSystem; time−step=0.0001 years


    Vertical distance with sun at origin (Au)

    jupiter
    mars
    earth
    venus
    4

    mercury
    2
    0
    −2
    −4

    −4 −2 0 2 4

    Horizontal distance with sun at origin (Au)


    - First we get our concerned data of planets from
    year 2002, April. We get the values of x,y,z and
    vx, vy and vz for al planets and copied them in a
    file which was further read in an array and stored
    in it.
    - Then we made a code for 10 years first, for all
    planets but then we had to extend it for 15 years
    due to the Jupiter-orbit problem.
    - All orbits were quite reasonable except that of
    Mercury; due to its high revolving speed, its
    orbits gets more and more diverged from
    accuracy, thus we took least possible time step of
    0.0001 years to make its orbit less wobbling.
    Time step less than this was too costly
    computationally.

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