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So I am making a world to be the setting of my future fantasy works (which, which is to say I really have no story planedplanned but I want to have a world for it when I do and that makeI want said world willto be likely give me story ideas) either way in a quest.

I want to make things look different but be functionally similar to earth's own circumstances for the purposes that I like science and just because magic is a thing doesn't mean that it is a thing I want to use to hand wave physics. As such I have done a lot of math to determine how this system would work. So as

As of now the system is a binary star system made up of a main sequence star with a mass of about .5 solar masses and a radius of .8 that of the sunssun's, and a white dwarf with the mass of .5 solar masses and a radius of 10,000 km with. The surface temperatures of both is such that their total luminosity is equal to that of the sunssun's. Then the

The planet on which my stories will take place is on a double planet, with two planets slightly larger than that of Earth that orbit around the stars while orbiting around a central point between the two of them. this This is where my question comes in how big would the tides be if the distance between them is about 3 times that of the distance between the earth and the moon so about 981,540 km apart from each other. I: how big would the tides be if the distance between them is about 3 times that of the distance between the earth and the moon so about 981,540 km apart from each other.

I am having a hard time of finding any math about that so I could just calculate it myself. Also these planets are not old enough to be tidally locked yet so yeah, and the orbit around their common center of gravity atis about 28 days (cause even numbers are my friend). So to reiterate

To restate my question: How large would the difference between low tide and high tide on this planet be?How large would the difference between low tide and high tide on this planet be?

So I am making a world to be the setting of my future fantasy works (which is to say I really have no story planed but I want to have a world for it when I do and that make said world will likely give me story ideas) either way in a quest to make things look different but be functionally similar to earth's own circumstances for the purposes that I like science and just because magic is a thing doesn't mean that it is a thing I want to use to hand wave physics. As such I have done a lot of math to determine how this system would work. So as of now the system is a binary star system made up main sequence star with a mass of about .5 solar masses and a radius of .8 that of the suns and a white dwarf with the mass of .5 solar masses and a radius of 10,000 km with surface temperatures of both that their total luminosity is equal to that of the suns. Then the planet on which my stories will take is on a double planet with two planets slightly larger than that of Earth that orbit around the stars while orbiting around a central point between the two of them. this is where my question comes in how big would the tides be if the distance between them is about 3 times that of the distance between the earth and the moon so about 981,540 km apart from each other. I am having a hard time of finding any math about that so I could just calculate it myself. Also these planets are not old enough to be tidally locked yet so yeah and the orbit their common center of gravity at about 28 days (cause even numbers are my friend). So to reiterate my question: How large would the difference between low tide and high tide on this planet be?

I am making a world to be the setting of my future fantasy works, which is to say I really have no story planned but I want to have a world for it when I do and I want said world to be likely give me story ideas.

I want to make things look different but be functionally similar to earth's own circumstances for the purposes that I like science and just because magic is a thing doesn't mean that it is a thing I want to use to hand wave physics. As such I have done a lot of math to determine how this system would work.

As of now the system is a binary star system made up of a main sequence star with a mass of about .5 solar masses and a radius of .8 that of the sun's, and a white dwarf with the mass of .5 solar masses and a radius of 10,000 km. The surface temperatures of both is such that their total luminosity is equal to that of the sun's.

The planet on which my stories will take place is on a double planet, with two planets slightly larger than that of Earth that orbit around the stars while orbiting around a central point between the two of them. This is where my question comes in: how big would the tides be if the distance between them is about 3 times that of the distance between the earth and the moon so about 981,540 km apart from each other.

I am having a hard time of finding any math about that so I could just calculate it myself. Also these planets are not old enough to be tidally locked yet, and the orbit around their common center of gravity is about 28 days (cause even numbers are my friend).

To restate my question: How large would the difference between low tide and high tide on this planet be?

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Tides on a double planet

So I am making a world to be the setting of my future fantasy works (which is to say I really have no story planed but I want to have a world for it when I do and that make said world will likely give me story ideas) either way in a quest to make things look different but be functionally similar to earth's own circumstances for the purposes that I like science and just because magic is a thing doesn't mean that it is a thing I want to use to hand wave physics. As such I have done a lot of math to determine how this system would work. So as of now the system is a binary star system made up main sequence star with a mass of about .5 solar masses and a radius of .8 that of the suns and a white dwarf with the mass of .5 solar masses and a radius of 10,000 km with surface temperatures of both that their total luminosity is equal to that of the suns. Then the planet on which my stories will take is on a double planet with two planets slightly larger than that of Earth that orbit around the stars while orbiting around a central point between the two of them. this is where my question comes in how big would the tides be if the distance between them is about 3 times that of the distance between the earth and the moon so about 981,540 km apart from each other. I am having a hard time of finding any math about that so I could just calculate it myself. Also these planets are not old enough to be tidally locked yet so yeah and the orbit their common center of gravity at about 28 days (cause even numbers are my friend). So to reiterate my question: How large would the difference between low tide and high tide on this planet be?