MAE 6720 - Celestial Mechanics

(crosslisted)
(also ASTRO 6579)

Spring. 3 credits.

Prerequisite: advanced undergraduate course in dynamics or permission of instructor. Formerly TAM 6720.

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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.