Celestial mechanics abounds in interesting and counter-intuitive phenomena, such as descriptions of mass transfer between stars or optimal placements of satellites within the Solar System. Remarkably, many such features are already present in the restricted three-body problem, whose assumptions still allow for analytical understanding, and to which the second chapter is devoted. This ‘simplified’ system is discussed first in terms of forces (both gravitational and fictitious), and then using the Hamiltonian form. As well as traditional topics like stable and unstable Lagrange points and Roche lobes, a brief introduction to chaotic orbits is given. Additionally, readers are guided towards exploring on their own with numerical orbit integration.
Analytical Solution of the Bosonic Three-Body Problem
