MAE 6720 - [Celestial Mechanics]

(crosslisted) ASTRO 6579

Spring. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

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

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A graduate level course in celestial mechanics and astrodynamics. Course topics include orbit specification and determination; 2- and 3-body problems; Hill’s equations; Lagrange’s planetary equations; effects of various forces (e.g., drag, radiation pressure, etc.); secular and resonant perturbations; variation of parameters; effects of non-spherical bodies; chaos and long-term evolution; algebraic and symplectic mappings.