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Strain drops off as 1/r, not 1/r^2
by ldunn 2y ago
Strain drops off as 1/r, not 1/r^2
- rachofsunshine 2y agoOh. Well, silly me. I did double check that it's inverse-square, but apparently not deeply enough - the energy is, but the amplitude isn't. Which makes sense if I think about it a little more (it's basically a spring, so energy ~ displacement^2) For other readers, this poster's correction is right, here's an astronomy SA thread on it. https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/34761/why-does-the-sensitivity-to-gws-drops-off-inversely-proportional-to-the-distance https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/34761/why-does... I swear, the one time I try posting outside my areas of expertise :D