The Three Body Problem
Your job as modellers is to write a Matlab program which prompts the user for the length of time you wish to solve the spacecraft motion for, the initial position and the initial velocity of the spacecraft. Use the following values to test your program: Time from: t = 0 to t = 24. Initial Position: x(0) = 1.15, y(0) = 0. Initial Velocity: dx dt (0) = 0, dy dt(0) = 0.008688. After establishing these values your program will solve the given system of equations and plot the solution (the trajectory of the spacecraft) in a figure window. The solution for the test parameters above is plotted in the figure below. You should be able to reproduce this plot with you program.
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