🌙 Tidal Locking — 2D Despinning Moon and Roche Limit
2D top-down companion of the tidal locking sim: constant-Q tidal torque on a moon, despin to synchronous rotation with a closed-form locking time that scales as the cube of the orbital distance, real orbital period from Kepler's third law and the rigid-body Roche limit.
⚙ Under the hood
2D top-down companion of the tidal locking sim: constant-Q tidal torque on a moon, despin to synchronous rotation with a closed-form locking time that scales as the cube of the orbital distance, real orbital period from Kepler's third law and the rigid-body Roche limit.
Tidal LockingRoche LimitSynchronous RotationTidal Dissipation
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install