Raymond Lyttleton

The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1953 book by British astronomer Raymond Arthur Lyttleton presents an account of advances in relation to a classical problem of mathematical astronomy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9781107615588
• ISBN-10: 1107615585
• Artikelnr.: 39343945

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Stability
3. The spherical form
4. The spheroidal and ellipsoidal forms
5. Ellipsoidal harmonic analysis
6. Further properties of lamé functions and application to gravitation
7. The secular stability of the Maclaurin spheroids
8. The secular stability of the Jacobi ellipsoids
9. The ordinary stability of the Jacobian ellipsoids
10. Cosmogonical implications
Appendix: references
Index.