Re: Calculating a planet\'s mass & gravitational pull
right, so 6.67300 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2 could be written as:
6.673 x 10^-11 m^3/kg*s^2
or
0.00000000006673 m^3/kg*s^2
I like to put the breaks in every 1000 so I usually write this:
0.00 000 000 006 673
This, as IF said, is quite different than:
-0.00 000 000 006 673
I hope that this is helpful, and isn't construde as beating a dead horse
[ August 21, 2003, 04:31: Message edited by: jimbob ]
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