On Maxwell's representation of MacCullagh's formula: a way to determine the principal axes of inertia for a rigid body via its multipole of the second order

DOI10.1134/S0965542524701434MaRDI QIDQ6656401zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors E. A. Nikonova

Publication date 2 January 2025

Published in Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965542524701434

zbMATH Keywords

circular sections of triaxial ellipsoidconfocal ellipsoidsellipsoid of inertiaMacCullagh's formulaMaxwell's representation of homogeneous harmonic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free motion of a rigid body (70E15)

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• On the approximation of the gravitational field of a small celestial body by the attractive field of an equimomental quadruple of material points

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