The Net Advance of Physics: CELESTIAL

CELESTIAL MECHANICS:

• General: Introductory:
  • Measuring the eccentricity of the Earth orbit with a nail and a piece of plywood by Thierry Lahaye [European Journal of Physics 33, 1167 (2012)]

• General:
  • Net Advance RETRO: Celestial Mechanics: Works from the 18th and 19th Centuries, most still very relevant.
  • Celestial Mechanics by Pierre Simon de Laplace [1825]
    • Volume I
    • Volume II
    • Volume III
    • Volume IV
  • Mechanism of the Heavens by Mary Somerville [1831] 700 pp.
  • Basic Celestial Mechanics by Sergei A. Klioner [2011] "Lecture notes on elementary celestial mechanics, Technische Universitaet Dresden."
  • The discovery of Neptune revisited by G. Rodríguez-Moris and J. A. Docobo [2024/05]

• Type: KEPLERIAN: Introductory:
  • Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum]
  • Kepler's Second Law by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum]
  • Flight to Mars by David P. Stern [Phy6 High-School Curriculum]

• Type: KEPLERIAN:
  • Keplerian Orbits and Dynamics by Carl D. Murray and Alexandre C. M. Correia [2010/09]
  • A geometric method to locate Neptune by S. Bhatnagar et al. [2021/02]

• Type: NON-KEPLERIAN:
  • Non-Keplerian Dynamics by Daniel C. Fabrycky [2010/06]

• Type: NONLINEAR: Aspects: RESONANCES: Malhotra 94/06;

• Type: RELATIVISTIC: Kalashnikov 2001/03;
  • On the foundations of general relativistic celestial mechanics by Emmanuele Battista et al. [2017/07]

• Aspects: EPICYCLES:
  • From heliocentrism to epicycles by E. Scholz [2022/08] Although presenting a non-standard historical argument (that Ptolemaic astronomy was derived from ancient heliocentric astronomy), I include it for its excellent explanation of epicycles.

• Aspects: LAGRANGE POINTS:
  • Lagrange Points by John Baez [2009/01]

• Aspects: MIGRATION:
  • Review: A Coherent and Comprehensive Model of the Evolution of the Outer Solar System by Alessandro Morbidelli [2010/10] i.e. the "Nice Model"
  • Orbital Migration Models under Test by Willy Kley [2011/02]
  • Dynamical evolution of planetary systems by Alessandro Morbidelli [2011/06]
  • Recent developments in planetary migration theory by C. Baruteau and F. Masset [2012/03]
  • Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems by Alessandro Morbidelli [2018/03]

• Aspects: RENDEZVOUS:
  • The Delicate Dance of Orbital Rendezvous by Bradley W. Carroll [American Journal of Physics 87, 627 (2019)]

• Aspects: RESONANCES:
  • Resonances in the asteroid and trans-Neptunian belts: a brief review by Tabare Gallardo [2018/03]

• Re: CHAOS: Lecar et al. 2001/11;

• Re: STATISTICAL MECHANICS: Padmanabhan 2002/06;

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS