MAE 6720 - Celestial Mechanics

(crosslisted) ASTRO 6579

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: advanced undergraduate course in dynamics or permission of instructor.

J. Burns.

Course topics include description of orbits; 2-body and 3-body problems; Hill curves, libration points; osculating orbital elements, perturbation equations; effects of various forces; applications to spacecraft orbits and the solar system.