3
Orbits and gravitation
- Sections
- Not written yet
- Reading time
- 7 h
- Olympiad problems
- 0
- Part
- Theory
What the chapter covers
Kepler's laws, energy and the vis-viva equation, orbit geometry, changing orbits and Hohmann transfers, time of flight, escape, hyperbolic orbits, collisions and small kicks, tides, the Roche limit, the Hill sphere, Lagrange points, atmospheric escape.
Share of the marks. Celestial mechanics carries about 11% of the theory marks in the official problem book.
Entry check and chapter test
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