Orbital Motion, 3rd Edition

Buch | Softcover

548 Seiten

1988 | 3rd New edition
Institute of Physics Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-85274-228-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive textbook encompassing the analytical methods of classical celestial mechanics, the recent numerical experiments into the orbital evolution of gravitating masses, and the astrodynamics of artificial satellites and interplanetary probes. It requires little or no prior familiarity with astronomy or space science but assumes a knowledge of calculus and elementary vector analysis. Problems, with answers, are included as are appendices of relevant astronomical and mathematical data. This text is intended primarily for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students but its discussion of orbital computation will be of interest to serious amateur astronomers. The third edition includes new data concerning various bodies in the Solar System, particularly in the systems of Jupiter and Saturn. New results from recent work on the stability of the Solar System and its sub-systems are included to update the text throughout.

Inhalt

The restless universe. Coordinate and time-keeping systems. The reduction of observational data. The two-body problem. The many-body problem. General perturbations. Special perturbations. The stability and evolution of the solar system. Lunar theory. Artificial satellites. Rocket dynamics and transfer orbits. Interplanetary and lunar trajectories. Orbit determination and interplanetary navigation. Binary and other few-body systems. Many-body stellar systems. Answers to problems. Appendices. Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.1988
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• ISBN-10: 0-85274-228-2 / 0852742282
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85274-228-0 / 9780852742280
• Zustand: Neuware