Dear Reader, Here is your book. Take it, run with it, pass it, punt it, enjoy all the many things that you can do with it, but-above all-read it. Like all textbooks, it was written to help you increase your knowledge; unlike all too many textbooks that you have bought, it will be fun to read. A preface usually tells of the author's reasons for writing the book and the author's goals for the reader, followed by a swarm of other important matters that must be attended to yet fit nowhere else in the book. I am fortunate in being able to include an insightful prepublication review that goes directly to my motivations and goals. (Look for it following this preface.) That leaves only those other important matters. In preparing the text, I consulted a number of books, chief of which included these: * S. Chandrasekhar, Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium, Yale Uni versity Press, 1969. * J .M.A. Danby, Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics, Macmil lan, 1962. Now available in a 2nd edition, 3rd printing, revised, corrected and enlarged, Willmann-Bell, 1992. * Y. Hagihara, Theories of Equilibrium Figures of a Rotating Ho mogeneous Fluid Mass, NASA, 1970. * R.A. Lyttleton, The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses, C- ix x PREFACE bridge University Press, 1953. * C.B. Officer, Introduction to Theoretical Geophysics, Springer Verlag, 1974. * A.S. Ramsey, Newtonian Attraction, Cambridge University Press, 1949. * W.M. Smart, Celestial Mechanics, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1953.
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781461286479
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138821414
Product Key Features
Author
Nathaniel Grossman
Publication Name
The Sheer Joy of Celestial Mechanics
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
182 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
318g
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Title_Author
Nathaniel Grossman
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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