Solar System B

[brobo]

How are you supposed to calculate escape velocity on a normal calculator? I could only find one that went up to 12 digits! THATS NOT ENOUGH!

[AlphaTauri]

Actually, according to the rules, there is a ban on programmable calculators but not scientific.

Each team may bring...a basic, non-programmable calculator with a square root function.

Great. That makes this whole page of discussion almost pointless.

[andrewwski]

Thread deleted back, as a page and a half of debate over a clearly defined rule point is cluttersome.

If one reads the above post, you will see that scientific calculators are allowed, and they can handle large numbers and scientific notation. There shouldn't be much room for debate in there...

[gyourkoshaven]

Fair enough.

Definitely check out the PowerPoint on soinc. It provides good information on basic concepts.

[brobo]

YAH! But I'm still going to bring a back up calculator just in case...

[waawamellon]

i need help.

[SOninja]

with what??
first, i would suggest the scioly wiki http://scioly.org/wiki/Solar_System and the ppt on soinc.org...

[EastStroudsburg13]

The archived thread has a lot of stuff too, even if it is a little bit cluttered and wasn't an event last year:http://scioly.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1171. Googling is also helpful.

If you still can't find anything, or have a more specific problem,then you can ask.

[brobo]

Try here: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=solar+system
All you need to do is Google it.

[EastStroudsburg13]

Because that's entirely your idea for finding that link.

But seriously, if you need help with say, the moons of Neptune or something more specific like that, and we'll be glad to help, but we can't give you everything for the event. And plus if we tried to explain everything it would be too long for someone to want to read anyway.