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Spring 2015
The processes responsible for generating the mean azimuthal atmospheric winds observed on Jupiter and Saturn, which feature large prograde equatorial jets and jets of alternating direction at higher latitudes, have yet to be conclusively resolved. Results from three dimensional numerical models...
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Fall 2017
Theory indicates that, to fully describe the ground motions of a particle, translational motions, strain and rigid rotational motions are all needed, where the first includes particle displacement, velocity and/or acceleration and the second includes normal and shear strain. Traditional...
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Fall 2010
As Mercury orbits the Sun, solar induced gravitational torques give rise to a planetary libration. While undergoing this 88 day period libration, the axes of minimum moment of inertia of the mantle and solid core, if present, become misaligned, leading to a gravitational torque which initiates a...
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Spring 2019
In the year 1693, the Franco-Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini publishedthree empirical laws describing the orbital and rotational motions of the Moon. Cassini’sThird Law describes the orientations of the lunar equatorial plane and the lunar orbital planevis-a-vis the ecliptic....