Resonance & Stability

Driven harmonic oscillator. Mean-motion resonances. Lagrange points. Stability & instability. Asteroid belt: Kirkwood gaps, Trojans, Hildas. Saturn's rings: gaps, bending waves, density waves. Laplace resonance. Plutinos.

Reading

None this week.

Slides

Resonance & Stability. I, 9 October 2012

Resonance & Stability. II, 11 October 2012

Assignment

None this week.

Joshua E. Barnes      (barnes at ifa.hawaii.edu) Updated: 12 October 2012 http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~barnes/ast241_f12/res.html