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Orbital Precision

Students explore the impact of using more digits of Pi when calculating the orbit of Nasa Satellites. Note: Students should be familiar with basic loops, conditional, and print statements in Java before attempting.

Easy

2 Hours

High School

Project Description

Students explore the impact of using more digits of Pi when calculating the orbit of Nasa Satellites.

Note: Students should be familiar with basic loops, conditional, and print statements in Java before attempting.

Math Topics: pi calculations, precision, percent error, unit conversions
Computer Science Topics: printing, variables, arithmetic, methods, for loops, if/else statements, logical and comparison operators.

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