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Physics of Planetary Rings describes striking structures of the planetary rings of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune: Narrow ringlets, spiral waves, and a chain of clumps.
The author has contributed essential ideas to the full understanding of planetary rings via the stability analysis of dynamical systems. The combination of a high-quality description, the set of interesting illustrations, as well as the fascinating and natural presentation will make this book of considerable interest to astronomers, physicists, and mathematicians as well as students.
There is no competing text for this book so far.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Observational Data
- 3. Celestial Mechanics Minimum
- 4. Elementary Particle Dynamics. I
Rigid Body Collisions
- 5. Elementary Particle Dynamics.II
Ring Cosmogony
- 6. Elementary Particle Dynamics.III
Wave, Photometric,
- 7. Collective Dynamics of Disc Particles. I
Formalism
- 8. Collective Dynamics of Disc Particles. II
Stability Analysis
- 9. Resonance Effects in Planetary Rings. I
Spiral Waves
- 10. Resonance Effects in Planetary Rings. II
Narrow Ringlets and Satellites
- 11. Formation and Stability of the Uranian Rings
- 12. Origin, Dynamics, and Stability of the Neptunian Rings
- 13. Self-organisation of the Solar System
- 14. Space Studies of the Outer Planets
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- I. The Possibility of Studying the Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs in a Two-Dimensional Approach
- II. Small-Amplitude Waves in a Disc
- III. Derivation of the Linearised Equations for Oscillations
- IV. Evaluating the Gravitational Potential
- V. A Drift Mechanism for the Formation
- VI. Resonance Structures in Saturn's C Ring
References
- Index
Readership:
Astronomers and physicists, space scientists
Springer Berlin, 1999, 436 S.
106,95 Euro
Hardcover, w. 125 figs.
ISBN: 978-3-540-64864-2
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