The N-body problem of 6n-12 degrees of freedom with twelve inherent constraints creates a difficult situation in working the equations of motion for three or more masses. This necessitates the mathematical physicist remedying the situation by determining proper constraints to get past this dilemma by requiring a specialized set of conditions to define a unique problem.This book addresses these issues and provides a general approach to solving certain classes of n-body problems, thereby showing that there exists a large body of mass configurations that can be formulated and solved deterministically. The problems provided at the end of each chapter will allow the reader to progress at a measured rate in understanding binary, trinary, and quadruple structured configurations, as well as subsystem perturbations, particle velocities, state vectors, period ratios, and sphere of influence.As an everyday resource in the working environment, this book gives the reader the prerequisite tools to deal with n-body configuration structures, whether in the real universe or in pursing purely theoretical problems.
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The N-body problem of 6n-12 degrees of freedom with twelve inherent constraints creates a difficult situation in working the equations of motion for three or more masses.

Product details

ISBN
9781527598560
Published
2023-04-22
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Height
212 mm
Width
148 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
211

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Biographical note

After graduation, T. A. Bauer obtained a position as a physicist with the Navy Navigation Satellite System at Point Mugu California as a staff member in 1972. He then served as a member of technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California, functioning as a mission analyst for many NASA projects from 1977 to 1988, and at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo California from 1988 to 1995. He retired in 1995 to pursue independent research and analysis in celestial mechanics.