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In the preceding chapter of this book we gave an outline of a theory of equilibrium figures of the components in close binary systems, which should permit us to predict their shape correctly to quantities of second order in surficial distortion caused by the tides mutually raised by the two stars on each other, and to the third order in polar flattening caused by axial rotation.
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III-1: The equations of motion for non-radiating fluid systems are classical (cf., e.g., L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifschitz, Fluid Mechanics, London 1959); for radiating systems cf. an excellent summary of them by P. Ledoux in vol. 51 (pp. 432–452) of the Handbuch der Physik (Ledoux, 1958).
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Kopal, Z. (1978). Dynamical Tides. In: Dynamics of Close Binary Systems. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9780-6_3
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