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SYLLABUS.
Primary Text: Geometry of Celestial Mechanics, Geiges Secondary Text: Celestial Mechanics, Pollard reading sched final scheduled for Thursday, March 23 4:00–7:00 p.m. |
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Homework
Solutions to HW Practice Questions for the Final Slide-based Notes nothing here yet.; |
Illustrious Celestial Mechanicians:
Kepler |
Newton |
 Euler |
Lagrange |
Laplace |
Gauss |
 Poincare |
Recommended sites
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The three-body problem (Scholarpedia, Chenciner)
N-body and choreography tours, animations that I link to The Three-Body Problem, sci fi A best-seller in China. See p. 199 of english paperback ed. |
the planimeter, and Kepler's 2nd law
Kepler's Problem wiki Green Lion ed. Reflecting about a circle : Thurston , p.10; wiki ; tutorial |