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Physical importance of centrifugal force and Coriolis force in the context of the restricted 3-body problem
In the textbook Galactic Dynamics (Binney and Tremaine), the restricted three-body problem to find the trajectory of a test mass that orbits in the combined gravitational field of two masses $M$ and $...
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Need advice on thin accretion disk model
I'm a physics teacher and I'm building a simple accretion disk model to show to students in an astrophysics class (undergraduate level), as an exemple of physics modeling. I need to know if this ...
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Paradox from mass transfer in a close stellar binary
I'm considering a simple binary system made of two stars, of mass $m_1$ and $m_2 < m_1$, on circular orbits around their center of mass. Using Newton's theory of gravitation, it is easy to prove ...
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