Dynamics of Planetary Systems (eBook)

Scott Tremaine (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
640 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24422-8 (ISBN)

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An introduction to celestial mechanics for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers new to the fieldCelestial mechanics-the study of the movement of planets, satellites, and smaller bodies such as comets-is one of the oldest subjects in the physical sciences. Since the mid-twentieth century, the field has experienced a renaissance due to advances in space flight, digital computing, numerical mathematics, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos theory, and the discovery of exoplanets. This modern, authoritative introduction to planetary system dynamics reflects these recent developments and discoveries and is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers. The book treats both traditional subjects, such as the two-body and three-body problems, lunar theory, and Hamiltonian perturbation theory, as well as a diverse range of other topics, including chaos in the solar system, comet dynamics, extrasolar planets, planetesimal dynamics, resonances, tidal friction and disruption, and more. The book provides readers with all the core concepts, tools, and methods needed to conduct research in the subject.Provides an authoritative introduction that reflects recent advances in the fieldTopics treated include Andoyer variables, co-orbital satellites and quasi-satellites, Hill's problem, the Milankovich equations, Colombo's top and Cassini states, the Yarkovsky and YORP effects, orbit determination for extrasolar planets, and moreMore than 100 end-of-book problems elaborate on concepts not fully covered in the main textAppendixes summarize the necessary background materialSuitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students; some knowledge of Hamiltonian mechanics and methods of mathematical physics (vectors, matrices, special functions, etc.) requiredSolutions manual available on request for instructors who adopt the book for a course

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Astrophysics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series in Astrophysics
• Zusatzinfo: 63 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: acceleration • Action potential • Angular momentum • angular velocity • Apsis • Astrometry • Astronomer • Astronomical Object • Astronomical Unit • Cartesian coordinate system • Celestial mechanics • chemical kinetics • Circular Orbit • Cosmic Ray • cosmogony • Debris disk • Dynamical system • Earth mass • Earth radius • Earth's orbit • Eccentricity vector • electrode • Epimetheus (moon) • Epoch (astronomy) • Equation • Equations of motion • exoplanet • Formation and evolution of the Solar System • Galactic Astronomy • Galaxy cluster • Galaxy rotation curve • General relativity • geometrical optics • Giant planet • Gravitational constant • gravitational potential • Gravitational Wave • Gravity • Gravity of Earth • hamiltonian mechanics • Hot Jupiter • Integrator • Interplanetary Transport Network • ion exchange • Jupiter trojan • Kepler orbit • Kepler's equation • Kepler's laws of planetary motion • longitude • Lunar orbit • lunar theory • membrane potential • Mercury (planet) • Methods of detecting exoplanets • Moons of Saturn • NASA Exoplanet Archive • Nebular hypothesis • Neptune • Neutrino • occultation • Orbit • Orbital elements • Orbital inclination • Orbital period • Orbital plane (astronomy) • Orbital Resonance • Parameter Space • Perihelion and aphelion • perturbation theory • Phase space • Photon • Planet • Planetary core • Planetary mass • Planetary Migration • Planetary surface • Planetary System • Planetesimal • Plasma (physics) • Polar orbit • Potassium • Probability • Protoplanetary disk • Pulsar planet • Quasi-satellite • Radiation pressure • Rotation period • Semi-major and semi-minor axes • sodium • Solar System • spacecraft • stellar evolution • Stellar mass • Structure of the Earth • Thermal Conduction • Thermodynamic Equilibrium • To the Earth • Trajectory • Trojan asteroid • Vector notation
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24422-7 / 0691244227
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24422-8 / 9780691244228