Introduction to Orbital Mechanics (Aerospace Division AD – Proceedings)

Franz T. Geyling020102358X, 9780201023589, 020102358X

Table of contents :
COVER……Page 1
INTRODUCTION TO
ORBITAL MECHANICS……Page 2
CONTENTS……Page 12
1
THE CENTRAL FORCE PROBLEM……Page 16
2
THE CONIC SECTIONS……Page 27
3
POSITION IN SPACE……Page 47
4
THE DETERMINATION OF ORBITS……Page 84
5 FUNDAMENTALS OF PERTURBATION THEORY……Page 120
6
PERTURBATION IN THE ELEMENTS……Page 172
7
LAGRANGE’S AND HAMILTON’S EQUATIONS. APPLICATION TO MOVING COORDINATES……Page 209
8 THE METHOD OF
CANONICAL TRANSFORMATIONS……Page 242
9
HANSEN’S METHOD……Page 292
ENVOY……Page 326
APPENDICES……Page 330
A INDEPENDENT CALCULATIONS ASVERIFICATION. LAGRANGE’S PLANETARY EQUATIONS AND PERTURBATIONS FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL GRAVITY……Page 332
B THE EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC DRAG ON AN EARTH SATELLITE……Page 337
C COMMENTS ON THE EFFECT OF RADIATION PRESSURE……Page 344
D REVERSIBILITY OF CANONICAL TRANSFORMATIONS……Page 350
E THE JACOBI THEOREM……Page 352
F VARIATION OF CANONIC CONSTANTS……Page 354
SOME USEFUL CONSTANTS……Page 356
INDEX……Page 358