The figure-of-8 librations of the gravity gradient pendulum and modes of an orbiting tether

DOI10.1090/qam/973381zbMath0664.70006OpenAlexW1516012140MaRDI QIDQ3815575

Peter J. Melvin

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/973381

zbMATH Keywords

recursion relationsnonlinear normal modesPoisson seriesfundamental mode of a tethered satelliteHill-Poincaré analytical continuationout-of-plane normal mode of the gravity gradient pendulumPoincaré-Lindstedt solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Motion of the gyroscope (70E05)

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