PHYS 681Celestial Mechanics 1 (
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Science
- Last listed
- 1971–72
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1968–69 to 1971–72; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Spherical Trigonometry. The celestial sphere. Determination of Position. Precession and nutation. Orbital behaviour of planets and stars. Application to double star theory. The analysis of visual binary orbits. Spectroscopic and eclipsing systems. The mass, luminosity and radii of binary stars.
As printed in the 1970–71 to 1971–72 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1971–72, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1970–71 to 1971–72 2 calendars
Spherical Trigonometry. The celestial sphere. Determination of Position. Precession and nutation. Orbital behaviour of planets and stars. Application to double star theory. The analysis of visual binary orbits. Spectroscopic and eclipsing systems. The mass, luminosity and radii of binary stars.
1968–69 to 1969–70 2 calendars
The two body problem.
682 Celestial Mechanics 2
The three body problem and perturbations.