Introduction to Celestial Mechanics

Best Course for Aerospace Engineering Students in Field of Astrophysics

From the reviews:
“The aim of this book is to demonstrate a modern aspects of celestial mechanics. … The book contain a set of Appendices (A–G) good for quick reference to the literature … . The present excellent book is devoted to advance level undergraduate students as well as postgraduate students and researchers. The author provided comprehensive literature, 175 items.” (Nikolay Asenov Kostov, Google Bucher, June, 2010)

Taking both a theoretical and observational perspective, this book is an introduction to recent developments in the field of celestial mechanics. It emphasizes the application to extended celestial bodies and devotes much attention to rotational aspects. In particular, it explains the state of art for accurate modelling of the rotation of celestial bodies such as the Earth, the Moon, and Mercury, which involves principles related to hydrodynamics and geodesy.

This is a textbook on classical mechanics at the intermediate level, but its main purpose is to serve as an introduction to a new mathematical language for physics called geometric algebra. Mechanics is most commonly formulated today in terms of the vector algebra developed by the American physicist J. Willard Gibbs, but for some applications of mechanics the algebra of complex numbers is more efficient than vector algebra, while in other applications matrix algebra works better. Geometric algebra integrates all these algebraic systems into a coherent mathematical language which not only retains the advantages of each special algebra but possesses powerful new capabilities.

From the reviews:
“The aim of this book is to demonstrate a modern aspects of celestial mechanics. … The book contain a set of Appendices (A–G) good for quick reference to the literature … . The present excellent book is devoted to advance level undergraduate students as well as postgraduate students and researchers. The author provided comprehensive literature, 175 items.” (Nikolay Asenov Kostov, Google Bucher, June, 2010)

From the reviews:
“The aim of this book is to demonstrate a modern aspects of celestial mechanics. … The book contain a set of Appendices (A–G) good for quick reference to the literature … . The present excellent book is devoted to advance level undergraduate students as well as postgraduate students and researchers. The author provided comprehensive literature, 175 items.” (Nikolay Asenov Kostov, Google Bucher, June, 2010)