The Perihelion of Mercury

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Moore, Ramon E.
Greenspan, Donald

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Technical Report

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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences

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Local finite Taylor series expansion is shown to be an efficient numerical method for the study of the n-body problem. Application is made to the accurate determination of the motion of the perihelion of Mercury according to Newtonian celestial mechanics.

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TR161

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