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- 'Solving Kepler's Equation Over Three Centuries' is the title of a book by Peter Colwell. The question is - are analytical solutions used in physics or engineering today ?
'Solving Kepler's Equation Over Three Centuries' is the title of a book by Peter Colwell. The book covers numerical methods starting with Kepler's method, followed by Newton's method, and many analytic methods starting with Lagrange's method and continuing up till the 1990s.
I spent many years in engineering working on rocket navigation and associated problems, and I didn't even know there were analytic solutions to Kepler's problem. Do analytic solutions play a role in any branches of engineering or physics today?
I spent many years in engineering working on rocket navigation and associated problems, and I didn't even know there were analytic solutions to Kepler's problem. Do analytic solutions play a role in any branches of engineering or physics today?