Theories of Figures of Celestial Bodies
By: Wenceslas S. Jardetzky ; with a foreword by Otto Struve.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Celestial mechanics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This Dover edition, first published in 2005, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1958 by Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Figures of Equilibrium of a Rotating Fluid Mass
label: Part I:; title: Introduction
label: Chapter I; title: Figures of Equilibrium;; Inverse Method
label: Chapter II; title: Method of Poincare
label: Chapter III; title: Method of Liapounov
label: Chapter IV; title: Lichenstein's Investigations
label: Chapter V; title: Method of Wavre
label: Chapter VI; title: Other Invariable or Varying Figures
label: Part II:; title: Zonal Rotation
label: Chapter VII; title: Varying Figures
label: Chapter VIII; title: Systems Composed of Fluid and Rigid Parts
label: Chapter IX; title: Fluid Mass and Centers of Attraction
label: Chapter X; title: Figures of Compressible Masses
label: Chapter XI; title: Bibliography; title: Index