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Course Name	Turkish	Göksel ve Uygulamalı Yörünge Mekaniği
	English	Celestial and Applied Orbital Mechanics
Course Code	UUM 522E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	-	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Cuma Yarım
Course Objectives		To inform the students about 1-motion of the matter and systems of matter in the universe under the gravitational forces 2-stability of formation of planets, solar system and galaxy
Course Description		Objects in the Universe and their motion. The Two-Body Problem; classification of orbits. The many body problem; the Lagrange's solution for the three-body problem. General perturbations; special perturbations. Coordinates and observational data; observational methods. The stability and evolution of the solar system. Mechanics of system of mass-points. Poincaré's recurrence theorem. Liouville's theorem. The virial theorem. Stellar systems as gravitating continua. Hydrodynamics; applications to our galaxy and to the systems of galaxies.
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