When to Use Gravity Well 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
Open the Gravity Well 3D Explorer when you need Moon / Earth / Jupiter / Sun escape speeds (2.38 / 11.2 / 59.5 / 617.5 km/s) as wells on one embedding sheet - or r_s = 2GM/c^2 literacy for the Sun (about 2.95 km) without a textbook plot or GR geodesic solver.
A five-minute classroom demo
A five-minute classroom demo starts when you open Gravity Well 3D Explorer, tap Moon then Sun in sequence, and read how escape speed jumps from 2.38 km/s to 617.5 km/s in the facts panel - faster than listing four numbers on a slide alone.
Schwarzschild-radius literacy
Schwarzschild-radius literacy stays readable when you toggle Show r_s (Sun) and read that the on-screen ring is exaggerated for teaching while the panel keeps the published value of about 2.95 km from r_s = 2GM/c^2. The sheet is a rubber-sheet teaching proxy, not a physical GR metric solver.
Sessions Gravity Well 3D Explorer does not fit
Sessions Gravity Well 3D Explorer does not fit are numeric GR geodesic solvers, accretion-disk movies, or n-body force integrations. Use Black Hole 3D Visualizer for disk and horizon imagery instead. Walk through the controls in the Gravity Well 3D Explorer step-by-step guide.
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