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Old 30-April-2008, 09:44 PM
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Thank you, Ken, for joining into the discussion. I have been going over some of your work and have decided that using rings is the best way to go with this. One reason being, we could stand on common ground in the discussion, but also, if I could work out the integration for the wires, and then for a ring of wires, then I could write a new program for just the last part of the integration for a set of rings from the center to the rim where the height and mass density of each ring could then be varied at will, allowing for various shapes and mass distributions within a very quick program. Since a particle that is very near the edge of a ring with some height will being lying against a surface with two dimensions, then the gravity should always be finite, even right up to the edge, and so there will be no need to consider the spacing between wires if I can work out the integration for it accordingly.
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