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"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why do we think common-envelope evolution happens? -- 1.2. Why is common-envelope evolution broadly important? -- 1.3. Why is modeling common-envelope evolution difficult?2. Main phases -- 2.1. Characteristic timescales -- 2.2. Phase I : the loss of orbital stability and the onset of the common env…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and …
"Version: 20141001"--Title page verso.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction : getting started -- List of the simulation programs -- How to operate the simulation programs -- Keplerian motions in celestial mechanics -- Numerical and analytical methodsReview of the simulations -- Kepler's laws -- Kepler's first law -- Kepler's second law -- Kepler's third law -- The approximate nature of Ke…
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