Abstract
"Qualitative theory of tides and their effects." It contains a qualitative explanation of tides and their effects: phase lags, forces that dissipate energy but do not dissipat angular momentum, circularization of orbits, spin-orbit synchronization and collision.
Brief Biography
Clodoaldo Grotta Ragazzo holds a degree in Naval Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP), a degree in Biosciences from USP, both obtained in 1986, and a PhD degree in Physics from USP (1989). He was a research visitor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University from September 1992 to June 1995 and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Department of Princeton University from September 1995 to June 1996. He is currently a professor at USP. He works in the area of Mathematics, mainly on the following topics: Hamiltonian systems, celestial mechanics, and fluid mechanics.
