| Abstract from DBPedia | In classical mechanics, the two-body problem is to predict the motion of two massive objects which are abstractly viewed as point particles. The problem assumes that the two objects interact only with one another; the only force affecting each object arises from the other one, and all other objects are ignored. The most prominent case of the classical two-body problem is the gravitational case (see also Kepler problem), arising in astronomy for predicting the orbits (or escapes from orbit) of objects such as satellites, planets, and stars. A two-point-particle model of such a system nearly always describes its behavior well enough to provide useful insights and predictions. A simpler "one body" model, the "central-force problem", treats one object as the immobile source of a force acting on the other. One then seeks to predict the motion of the single remaining mobile object. Such an approximation can give useful results when one object is much more massive than the other (as with a light planet orbiting a heavy star, where the star can be treated as essentially stationary). However, the one-body approximation is usually unnecessary except as a stepping stone. For many forces, including gravitational ones, the general version of the two-body problem can be , allowing it to be solved completely, and giving a solution simple enough to be used effectively. By contrast, the three-body problem (and, more generally, the n-body problem for n ≥ 3) cannot be solved in terms of first integrals, except in special cases.二体問題（にたいもんだい、英: Two-body problem）は、古典力学において互いに相互作用を及ぼす2つの点の動きを扱う問題と定義できる。身近な例としては、惑星の周りを回る衛星、恒星の周りを回る惑星、の周りを回る連星や、原子核の周りを回る古典的な電子などである。 全ての二体問題は、独立した一体問題に帰着させて解くことができる。しかし、三体問題やそれ以上の多体問題は、特別な場合を除いて解くことはできない。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Two-body_problem) |
