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Author Battin, Richard H

Title Introduction to the Mathematics and Methods of Astrodynamics
Published Reston : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (829 pages)
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1: Hypergeometric Functions and Elliptic Integrals -- Chapter 2: Some Basic Topics in Analytical Dynamics -- Chapter 3: The Problem of Two Bodies -- Chapter 4: Two-Body Orbits and the Initial-Value Problem -- Chapter 5: Solving Kepler's Equation -- Chapter 6: Two-Body Orbital Boundary-Value Problem -- Chapter 7: Solving Lambert's Problem -- PART II -- Chapter 8: Non-Keplerian Motion -- Chapter 9: Patched-Conic Orbits and Perturbation Methods
Chapter 10: Variation of ParametersChapter 11: Two-Body Orbital Transfer -- Chapter 12: Numerical Integration of Differential Equations -- Chapter 13: The Celestial Position Fix -- Chapter 14: Space Navigation -- Appendices -- Appendix H: Probability Theory and Applications -- Appendix I: Miscellaneous Problems -- Epilogue -- Index
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Subject Astrodynamics -- Mathematics
Astrodynamics -- Mathematics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781600860263
1600860265