Jim Parsons Biography
Jim Parsons is an American television and film actor, best known for playing Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory.
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Jim Parsons Quotes
Rethinking the Approach to Orbital Calculations
Katherine Johnson:
The problem is when the capsule moves from an elliptical orbit to a parabolic orbit; There's no mathematical formula for that. Cause we can calculate launch and landing, but without this conversion, the capsule stays in orbit. We can't bring it back home.
Al Harrison:
...Maybe we've been thinking about this all wrong.
Paul Stafford:
And how's that?
Al Harrison:
Maybe it's not new math at all.
Katherine Johnson:
It could be old math: something that looks at the problem numerically and not theoretically. Math is always dependable.
Al Harrison:
For you, it is.
Katherine Johnson: [takes a long look at the formulas, then gets an idea]
Euler's Method.
Paul Stafford:
Euler's Method?
Katherine Johnson:
Yes.
Paul Stafford:
But that's ancient.
Katherine Johnson:
But it works. It works numerically.
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