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Including a chapter that provides a treatment of the Caledonian symmetrical n-body problem, this mathematically detailed book on classical celestial mechanics covers modern applied areas such as satellite dynamics. It also includes coverage that may meet the needs of those in aerospace engineering and planetary science.
List of contents
1 The Restless Universe 2 Coordinate and Time-Keeping Systems 3 The Reduction of Observational Data 4 The Two-Body Problem 5 The Many-Body Problem 6 The Caledonian Symmetric N-body Problem 7 General Perturbations 8 Special Perturbations 9 The Stability and Evolution of the Solar System 10 Lunar Theory 11 Arti?cial Satellites 12 Rocket Dynamics and Transfer Orbits 13 Interplanetary and Lunar Trajectories 14 Orbit Determination and Interplanetary Navigation 15 Binary and Other Few-Body Systems 16 Many-Body Stellar Systems
About the author
A.E. Roy, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow.
Summary
Including a chapter that provides a treatment of the Caledonian symmetrical n-body problem, this mathematically detailed book on classical celestial mechanics covers modern applied areas such as satellite dynamics. It also includes coverage that may meet the needs of those in aerospace engineering and planetary science.
