Derivatives of the gravity potential with respect to rectangular coordinates

DOI10.1023/A:1008361202235MaRDI QIDQ1305626zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gilles Métris, Jin Xu, Iwona Wytrzyszczak

Publication date 24 July 2000

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1008361202235

zbMATH Keywords

rectangular coordinatesderivatives of arbitrary ordergravity acceleration vectorgravity gradient tensorgravity potentialunique parametrized formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15) Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08)

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