Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Mechanics of celestial bodies (17.GI014)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Geodesy and Geoinformatics (Godina: 4, Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Geoinformatika
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	6

Educational goal:

Acquisition of basic and applied knowledge in the field of Geodesy and Geoinformatics. Acquiring basic knowledge in the field of Celestial mechanics and Astronomy.

Educational outcome:

Acquired knowledge is used in professional courses, as well as in the recognition and in solving the engineering problems.

Course content:

Lecture content: Basic notions and classifications in astronomy. Celestial coordinate system - Coordinate transforms from one to another coordinate system. Apparent daily and annual movement of the Sun. Bases in spherical astronomy. Astronomic refraction, precession, nutation, aberration, parallax, individual star movement. Astrological ephemeris. Star catalogues. Time scales (UT0, UT1, UT2, ETR, UTC, TDT, BDT, TCG, TCB, TT, GPST, GLONASST). Movement of Earth`s poles. Celestial reference system. Determining azimuth. Basic notions in celestial mechanics: Coordinate systems in celestial mechanics. Plane velocity. Kepler`s laws. Motion of material point under the influence of central force. Binet equation. General gravity law. Newton`s task. Correction of the third Kepler`s law. - 1st, 2nd and 3rd space speed. Introduction to the mechanics of artificial Earth satellite movement: Gravity field of Earth presented via spherical harmonious functions. Deviations in the movement of artificial Earth satellites. Historical overview of the development of satellite positioning systems. Practice content: Practical application of presented concepts from lectures.

Teaching methods:

Forms of teaching: lectures; computer exercises; active participation; making tasks.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Schödlbauer, A	Geodätische Astronomie, Grundlagen und Konzepte	2000	Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany	German
Beutler G.	Methods of Celestial Mechanics	2005	Springer	English
Green, M. R.	Spherical astronomy	1988	Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK	English