Covers Kepler's laws of planetary motion and Newton's law of gravitation. This book treats the average and extremum values of dynamical variables and discusses the central force problem. It tackles the planetary problem in Cartesian and complex coordinates and considers examples of Keplerian motion in the solar system.
Covers Kepler's laws of planetary motion and Newton's law of gravitation. This book treats the average and extremum values of dynamical variables and ...
Keppler puzzled over it. So did Einstein. In fact, most of the greatest theorists had at least a thought or two about orbital motion, especially in the rise and growth of space science. Tan (physics, Alabama A&M U.) brings the concepts to the introductory and intermediate undergraduate levels, working primarily from first principles and beginning with Kepler's laws of planetary motion and Newton's law of gravitation. Thus armed, he explains the average and extremum values of variables, the central force problem, vector hodographs in planetary motion, planetary motion in Cartesian coordinates,...
Keppler puzzled over it. So did Einstein. In fact, most of the greatest theorists had at least a thought or two about orbital motion, especially in th...
