On the Intrinsic Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.2 No.12, December 2015

Open Access Library Journal

Volume 2, Issue 12 (December 2015)

ISSN Print: 2333-9705 ISSN Online: 2333-9721

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On the Intrinsic Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102239 969 Downloads 1,769 Views Citations

Author(s)

Barbaro Quintero-Leyva

Affiliation(s)

Independent Work, Miami, FL, USA.

ABSTRACT

The longitude of the perihelion advance of Mercury was calculated for the two and ten-body problem by using a correction to the balance between the force given by the Newton 2^nd law of motion and the Newton gravitational force. The corresponding system of differential equations was solved numerically. The correction, that expresses the apparent mass variation with the body speed, has a trend that is different from those that usually appear in the electron theory and in the special theory of relativity. The calculated intrinsic precession was ~42.95 arc-sec/cy for the Sun-Mercury system and ~42.98 arc-sec/cy when the difference between the corrected model and the Newtonian model, for the 10-body problem, is taken.

KEYWORDS

Celestial Mechanics, Newtonian Gravitation, Newton’s 2nd Law, Special Theory of Relativity, Mercury Perihelion Precession

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Quintero-Leyva, B. (2015) On the Intrinsic Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury. Open Access Library Journal, 2, 1-5. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1102239.

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