Motions of celestial bodies : computer simulations /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2014]
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| Series: | IOP expanding physics.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Author biography
- Introduction : getting started
- List of the simulation programs
- How to operate the simulation programs
- Keplerian motions in celestial mechanics
- Numerical and analytical methods
- Hodograph of the velocity vector for Keplerian motion
- Hodograph of the velocity for closed orbits
- Hodograph of the velocity for open orbits
- Orbits of satellites and trajectories of missiles
- Families of Keplerian orbits
- Evolution of an orbit in the atmosphere
- Active maneuvers in space orbits
- How to operate the program
- Space flights and orbital maneuvers
- Relative motion of bodies in space orbits
- Space probes and relative motion
- Rendezvous in space and interplanetary flights
- Precession of an equatorial orbit
- Binary stars : the two-body problem
- Three-body systems
- The restricted three-body problem
- Managing the program 'Planet with a satellite'
- Satellites of a planet that orbits a star
- Exact particular solutions to the three-body problem
- A space flight over the back side of the Moon
- Lunar perturbations of a satellite's orbit
- A space voyage to a distant planet and back
- Comets : interplanetary vagabonds
- A double star with a planet
- Many-body systems in celestial mechanics
- Planetary system : a many-body problem
- A model of the Solar System
- Hypothetical planetary systems and heavenly catastrophes
- Multiple stars
- Exact particular solutions to the many-body problem
- Phenomena and concepts in celestial mechanics : an introductory approach
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Potential energy of a body in the Newtonian gravitational field
- Circular velocity and escape velocity
- Geometric properties of Keplerian orbits
- Initial conditions and parameters of Keplerian orbits
- A satellite in the atmosphere
- Trajectories of a landing module
- A space probe
- Space rendezvous
- Kepler's laws and the solar system
- An approximate approach to the restricted three-body problem
- Theoretical background
- Angular momentum and areal velocity
- Dynamical derivation of Kepler's first law
- Kepler's third law
- A hodograph of the velocity vector for Keplerian motion
- Another derivation of Kepler's first law
- A family of orbits with equal energies and a common initial point
- Relative orbital motion
- The gravitational field of a distorted planet
- The two-body problem
- Exact particular solutions to the three-body problem
- The non-restricted three-body problem
- The sphere of gravitational action
- The oceanic tides
- Glossary.