Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The central force problem
- 2 Conic sections
- 3 The Kepler problem
- 4 The dynamics of the Kepler problem
- 5 The two-body problem
- 6 The n-body problem
- 7 The three-body problem
- 8 The differential geometry of the Kepler problem
- 9 Hamiltonian mechanics
- 10 The topology of the Kepler problem
- References
- Index
5 - The two-body problem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The central force problem
- 2 Conic sections
- 3 The Kepler problem
- 4 The dynamics of the Kepler problem
- 5 The two-body problem
- 6 The n-body problem
- 7 The three-body problem
- 8 The differential geometry of the Kepler problem
- 9 Hamiltonian mechanics
- 10 The topology of the Kepler problem
- References
- Index
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- Chapter
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- The Geometry of Celestial Mechanics , pp. 51 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016