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Something is amiss in the reference frames whose axis of rotation varies #3615

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eggrobin opened this issue Apr 23, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #3625
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Something is amiss in the reference frames whose axis of rotation varies #3615

eggrobin opened this issue Apr 23, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #3625

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It was noted in #3609 that we had an abnormal discrepancy between the motion computed in the inertial frame and that computed using the geometric acceleration in the rotating-pulsating frame, but that this discrepancy was there in the MEO frame already.

This discrepancy is absent in the frame of the lunar surface. Interestingly @pleroy found that it is also absent when the Sun-Earth-Moon system is made planar; thus the issue is not just nonuniform rotation (the orbit of the moon is still eccentric in that case), but variation of the axis of rotation.

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pleroy commented Apr 23, 2023

The current theory is that this computation is incorrect. What we should be computing is the spin angular velocity of a rigid body (the frame) but we are using the formula for orbital angular velocity; Wikipedia even has a note explaining that this is wrong.

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eggrobin commented May 4, 2023

Fixed by #3625.

@eggrobin eggrobin closed this as completed May 4, 2023
@pleroy pleroy added this to the ابن الهيثم milestone May 18, 2023
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