| Abstract from DBPedia | In physics and classical mechanics, the three-body problem is the problem of taking the initial positions and velocities (or momenta) of three point masses and solving for their subsequent motion according to Newton's laws of motion and Newton's law of universal gravitation. The three-body problem is a special case of the n-body problem. Unlike two-body problems, no general closed-form solution exists, as the resulting dynamical system is chaotic for most initial conditions, and numerical methods are generally required. Historically, the first specific three-body problem to receive extended study was the one involving the Moon, Earth, and the Sun. In an extended modern sense, a three-body problem is any problem in classical mechanics or quantum mechanics that models the motion of three particles.古典力学において、三体問題（さんたいもんだい、英: three-body problem）とは、互いに重力相互作用する三質点系の運動がどのようなものかを問う問題。天体力学では万有引力により相互作用する天体の運行をモデル化した問題として、18世紀中頃から活発に研究されてきた。運動の軌道を与える一般解が求積法では求まらない問題として知られる。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Three-body_problem) |
