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Brethern

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Is there anyway to unlock all three parameters?
« on: May 10, 2011, 11:49:28 AM »
I accidentally pushed the lock button when changing the mass of the sun to equal that of a black hole.

Is there anyway to have all three unlock? I can't do any of my planned sims without having them unlocked.

Thanks.

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Re: Is there anyway to unlock all three parameters?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2011, 12:55:09 PM »
The reason that one of the three values: mass, diameter, density is always locked is because one of the values (the locked value) is always dependent on the values of the other two:

From the diameter you can compute the volume so the functions are these:

mass = volume * density

or

density = mass / volume

or

volume = mass / density

Does that help?

Brethern

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Re: Is there anyway to unlock all three parameters?
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2011, 06:25:28 PM »
That actually does I was under the assumption that the values were independent.

Thanks for the reply.