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Hardcover Foundations of Celestial Mechanics Book

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ISBN13: 9783031045752

Foundations of Celestial Mechanics

1 N-body problem 111.1 Self-gravitating systems of massive points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.2 Fundamental rst integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171.2.1 Conservation of momentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.2.2 Angular momentum conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.2.3 Energy conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.3 Barycentric and relative systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.4 N-body problem solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261.5 Virial theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 The two-body problem 312.1 Motion about center of mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342.2 Reduction to the plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.3 E ective potential energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.4 The trajectory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422.5 Laplace{Runge{Lenz vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432.6 Geometry of conics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462.6.1 Ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472.6.2 Parabola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502.6.3 Hyperbola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522.7 Conic orbits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532.7.1 Elliptical orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562.7.2 Parabolic orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612.7.3 Hyperbolic orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622.8 Keplerian elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632.9 Ephemerides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652.10 The method of Laplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702.11 Ballistics and space ight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 The three-body problem 853.1 Stationary solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873.1.1 Collinear solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923.1.2 Triangular solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943.2 The restricted problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973.3 Zero{velocity curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013.3.1 The (x; y) plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023.3.2 The (x; z) plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043.3.3 The (y; z) plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053.4 About the Lagrangian points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073.5 Stability of the Lagrangian points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083.5.1 The equilibrium conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083.5.2 Collinear solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103.5.3 Triangular solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113.6 Variation of the elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133.6.1 Variation of the orientation elements . . . . . . . . . . . 1163.6.2 Variation of the geometric elements . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184 Analytical mechanics 1254.1 Lagrange function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274.2 Generalized coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294.3 Lagrange equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314.4 Hamilton function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334.5 Canonical equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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