Pedal coordinates, solar sail orbits, dipole drive and other force problems

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2021.125537MaRDI QIDQ2236005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Petr Blaschke

Publication date 22 October 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05767

zbMATH Keywords

celestial mechanicssolar saildipole driveforce problemsgeometry of planar curvespedal coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of a particle (70B05)

Abstract: It was shown that pedal coordinates provides natural framework in which to study force problems of classical mechanics in the plane. A trajectory of a test particle under the influence of central and Lorentz-like forces can be translated into pedal coordinates at once without the need of solving any differential equation. We will generalize this result to cover more general force laws and also show an advantage of pedal coordinates in certain variational problems. These will enable us to link together many dynamical systems as well as problems of calculus of variation. Finally -- as an illustrative example -- we will apply obtained results to compute orbits of Solar sail and Dipole drive.

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