About the Free and Forced Nutation: The Daily Nutation

Monica Zoe Ciobanu

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About the Free and Forced Nutation: The Daily Nutation

Monica Zoe Ciobanu

Published in American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Volume 9, Issue 2)

Received: 22 March 2021 Accepted: 14 April 2021 Published: 8 May 2021

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To explain the nutation phenomenon, Euler chose a geocentric frame of coordinates to present his dynamical equations. In accordance with his formulas, the nutation is caused by a momentum relative to the Earth's center, due to certain external forces. Further, Poinsot presented a special case of the Euler's equations, when any momentum of those certain external forces does not exist. Due to a problematic approximation, Poinsot announced that in this case may take place a nutation period of 10 month, named “free period”, to distinguish it from the Euler's dynamical solution, known as “forced nutation”. After Poinsot, the notion of “free nutation” was extended also to those nutation phenomena which have only a geophysical origin, without a momentum of certain external forces. Usually, the daily nutation is considered as being a free nutation phenomenon. In order to search for a forced daily nutation component, the daily trajectory of the Earth-Moon barycenter inside the Earth is used (a simple scheme of this barycenter trajectory is presented in a geocentric system of axes). Finally, if the ecliptic line is accepted to be described by the Earth-Moon barycenter, it must be accepted, too, that a torque due the Sun and the Moon acts during a sideral day interval on diurnal Earth rotation around its axis. Due to the small value of the nutation constant, a period of 18,6 years is needed to correctly and completely detect the forced daily nutation; this phenomenon permanently presents very fine variations depending on the longitude of the ascending lunar node, the Moon’s declination and the Sun’s ecliptic longitude.

Published in	American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Volume 9, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajaa.20210902.12
Page(s)	18-21
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Nutation, Euler-Poinsot Case, Earth-Moon Barycenter

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