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All systems of bodies acting on one another and for which the motion can be determined by the laws of mechanics can only belong to one of three specific classes because their interaction can only occur in three different ways, that is, by forces of attraction when the bodies are free or by the members which link them or yet by immediate impact. Our planetary system belongs to the first class and consequently, all related problems are of primary importance among the problems of dynamics. These problems are the object of this section.
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Lagrange, J.L. (1997). The Motion of a System of Free Bodies Treated as Mass Points and Acted Upon by Forces of Attraction. In: Boissonnade, A., Vagliente, V.N. (eds) Analytical Mechanics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 191. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8903-1_15
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