Integrable Systems in Celestial Mechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-10

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2. General Introduction

   Pages 1-19

3. Lagrangian Mechanics

   Pages 21-27

4. The Kepler Problem

   Pages 29-48

5. The Euler Problem I — Planar Case

   Pages 49-111

6. The Euler Problem II — Three-dimensional Case

   Pages 113-142

7. The Earth Satellite — General Analysis

   Pages 143-192

8. The Earth Satellite — Some Special Orbits

   Pages 193-210

9. Back Matter

   Pages 1-24

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Direct involvement with the subject area of the present work dates from my years with NASA at its Electronics Research Center (ERC) in Cambridge, M- sachusetts, in the 1960s. However, my approach to the problems of mathem- ical physics had been shaped earlier in my time as a graduate student in the Mathematics Department at MIT. The passage of time tends merely to further enhance my appreciation of that graduate study program, where I had the b- e?t of the intensive courses from Norman Levinson, C.-C. Lin, Jurgen ¨ Moser, and Eric Reissner. In the case of Reissner, my years as research assistant were a formative apprenticeship — one could say on the “shop-?oor”. The stimulus to organize my convictions in book form came from my friends at Birkh¨ auser Boston, and I wish to thank Ann Kostant for providing me with the opportunity and support in producing it; a special thanks goes to Edwin Beschler, formerly of Birkh¨ auser, for his consistent encouragement over the years. In the course of writing, I had the good-humored support and invaluable help from my one-time teacher and long-time friend, Vincent Hart. He read each chapter as it was written and his sharp eye picked up my many slips and errors. More signi?cantly, his persistent questioning on the original form of Chapter 3 forced me to address all parameter ranges and provide solution forms to cover all possibilities for the case of negative energy.

• Euler problem
• Kepler problem
• Lagrangian mechanics
• Potential
• Vinti problem
• calculus
• differential equation
• earth-satellite problem
• mathematical physics
• two-body problem
• two-fixed center problem

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