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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000945249707536

Titolo

Classical and celestial mechanics : the Recife lectures / edited by Hildeberto Cabral and Florin Diacu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2002

ISBN

0691050228

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Classificazione

AMS 70F15

LC QB362.M3C52

Altri autori (Persone)

Cabral, Hildeberto

Diacu, Florin

Disciplina

521

Soggetti

Many-body problem

Celestial mechanics

Mechanics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Central configurations and relative equilibria for the N-Body problem / Dieter Schmidt ; App. A. The Area of a Triangle ; App. B. Mathematica Code for the Four-Body Problem ; App. C. Mathematica Code for the Planar Five-Body Problem. Singularities of the N-Body Problem / Florin Diacu. Lectures on the Two-Body Problem / Alain Albony. Normal Forms of Hamiltonian Systems and Stability of Equilibria / Hildeberto Eulalio Cabral. Poincare's Compactification and Applications to Celestial Mechanics / Ernesto Perez-Chavela. The Motion of the Moon / Dieter Schmidt ; App. A. Canonical Transformation to Jacobi Coordinates ; App. B. MACSYMA Program for the Intermediate Orbit ; App. C. MACSYMA Program for Inclination ; App. D. MACSYMA Program for First Order Terms in e Lectures on Geometrical Methods in Mechanics / Mark Levi. Momentum Maps and Geometric Phases / Jair Koiller. Bifurcation from Families of Periodic Solutions / Jack K. Hale and Placido Taboas