Theory of Orbits
Subtitle: Perturbative and Geometrical Methods
By: by Dino Boccaletti, Giuseppe Pucacco
Contributors: Pucacco, Giuseppe
Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library; Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9783642082221; 9783662092408
Subjects: Astrophysics; Physics; Physical geography
Description: Theory of Orbits treats celestial mechanics as well as stellar dynamics from the common point of view of orbit theory, making use of concepts and techniques from modern geometric mechanics. It starts with elementary Newtonian mechanics and ends with the dynamics of chaotic motion. The two volumes are meant for students in astronomy and physics alike. Prerequisite is a physicist's knowledge of calculus and differential geometry. The first three chapters of this second volume are devoted to the theory of perturbations, starting from classical problems and arriving at the KAM theory, and to the introduction of the use of the Lie transform. A whole chapter treats the theory of adiabatic invariants and its applications in celestial mechanics and stellar dynamics. Also the theory of resonances is illustrated and applications in both fields are shown. Classical and modern problems connected to periodic solutions are reviewed. The description of modern developments of the theory of chaos in conservative systems is the subject of a chapter in which an introduction is given to what happens in both near-integrable and non-integrable systems. The invaluable help provided by computers in the exploration of the long-time behaviour of dynamical systems is acknowledged in a final chapter, where some numerical algorithms and their applications both to systems with few degrees of freedom and to large N-body systems are illustrated.
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Table of contents: title: Classical Perturbation Theory in Celestial Mechanics - Equations of Planetary Motion; title: Canonical Perturbation Theory and KAM Theory; title: Lie Transform Perturbation Theory; title: The Theory of Adiabatic Invariants and Its Applications in Celestial Mechanics and Stellar Dynamics; title: Periodic Orbits and Resonances; title: Chaos; title: Numerical Explorations.