Orbital Motion

ISBN-13: 9780750310154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 544 str.

A. R. Roy; Roy Roy

Opis

A comprehensive, mathematically detailed book on classical celestial mechanics, this edition updates all chapters and incorporates a new chapter that provides the first textbook treatment of the Caledonian symmetrical "n"-body problem. The book's contents have been reorganized and extended to encompass new methods and teaching demands, and to cover more modern applied areas such as satellite dynamics. A long-established text in the physics and astronomy fields, this edition extends its coverage to meet the needs in the areas of aerospace engineering and planetary science, which now need to cover this material in more detail.

Multi/Card Deck Copy

Recenzje

“Roy updates this fourth edition of an established text to include new research results … While the text is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines ranging from astronomy and planetary science to aerospace and satellite engineering, its discussion of orbital computation will be of interest to serious amateur astronomers.”
—SciTech Book News, December 2006

“Each chapter is accompanied by exercises (with answers and some hints) that are designed to give the student confidence. This book retains its usefulness as a comprehensive text on introductory celestial mechanics… .”
— James Collett,Physical Science Educational Reviews,Vol. 7 Issue 1, June 2006

Praise for the Third Edition
 “…a classic text … on the orbits of everything from galactic clusters down to grapefruit-sized Earth satellites.”
— Planet Space Science

Spis treści

Preface to Fourth Edition. The Restless Universe. Coordinate and Time-Keeping Systems. The Reduction of Observational Data. The Two-Body Problem. The Many-Body Problem. The Caledonian Symmetric N-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. Appendix I: Astronomical and Related Constants. Appendix II: The Earth’s Gravitational Field. Appendix III. Appendix IV. Index

O autorze

A.E. Roy (University of Glasgow, Scotland) (Author)