Retrograde Demo

Published 2016-03-09

This is a project 5 years in the making. I first learned about retrograde motion in an 8th grade science class. I tried to create a simulation of it in Scratch, but ran into a number of problems and eventually put the project to the side. I recently started brainstorming for a sci-fi story I want to write and came back to the idea of retrograde motion. I tried once again to simulate it in Scratch, and found I now had the understanding of trigonometry necessary to do so.

Kudos to Anil Chopra for first teaching me about retrograde motion back in 8th grade!