FarFlame:
Are you simply calculating position on a circle, or are you doing real calculations of gravity, mass, acceleration, etc?
If you are using real physics, check out this tutorial:
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sintro.htm
It will provide you all you need to know about planetary motion, space travel, newtonian physics... in fact, it's only problem is that it might go into too much depth. It also includes tutorials on the algebra and trig used. So EVERYTHING you need to understand planetary motion and space travel is there. Even though in theory we all learned this stuff in Physics 101, it was nice to have a well-writen tutorial SPECIFICLY about space travel with all the information right there.
Are you simply calculating position on a circle, or are you doing real calculations of gravity, mass, acceleration, etc?
If you are using real physics, check out this tutorial:
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sintro.htm
It will provide you all you need to know about planetary motion, space travel, newtonian physics... in fact, it's only problem is that it might go into too much depth. It also includes tutorials on the algebra and trig used. So EVERYTHING you need to understand planetary motion and space travel is there. Even though in theory we all learned this stuff in Physics 101, it was nice to have a well-writen tutorial SPECIFICLY about space travel with all the information right there.