Solar System Dynamics

by Carl D. Murray and Stanley F. Dermott

Chapter 5

Spin-Orbit Coupling

1. Structure of the Solar System
2. The Two-Body Problem
3. The Restricted Three-Body Problem
4. Tides, Rotation and Shape
5. SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING
   1. Introduction
   2. Tidal despinning
   3. The permanent quadrupole moment
   4. Spin-orbit resonance
      • Figure 5.9 : notebook
      • Figure 5.10a : notebook
      • Figure 5.11 : notebook
      • Figure 5.12 : notebook
      • Figure 5.13 : notebook
   5. Capture into resonance
   6. Forced librations
   7. Surface of section
   8. Exercises
      • Answers (PDF)
6. The Disturbing Function
7. Secular Perturbations
8. Resonant Perturbations
9. Chaos and Long-term Evolution
10. Planetary Rings

1. Appendix - Solar System Data
2. Appendix - Expansion of the Disturbing Function
3. References (PDF)

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