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Encyclopedia Britannica



INVARIABLE PLANE

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 717 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
INVARIABLE PLANE , in
celestial
 
mechanics
  (see ASTRONOMY), that plane on which the sum of the moments of momentum of all the bodies which make up a
system
  is a maximum. It derives its celebrity from the demonstration by Laplace that to whatever mutual actions all the bodies of a
system
  may be subjected, the position of this plane remains invariable.
A conception of it may be reached in the following way. Suppose that from the centre of gravity of the solar system (instead of which we may, if we choose, take the centre of the sun), lines or radii vectores be
drawn
  to every
body
  of the solar system. As the
planet
  revolves around the centre, each radius vector describes a surface of which the area swept over in a unit of time
measures
  the areal velocity of the
planet
 . The constancy of this velocity in the case of the sun and a single planet is formulated in Kepler's second law. Next pass any plane through the centre of motion and project the area just defined upon that plane. We shall thus have a projected areal velocity, the product of which by the
mass
  of the planet is the moment of momentum of the latter. Form this product for every
body
  or
mass
  of matter in the system, and the sum of the moments is then invariable whatever be the direction of the plane of projection. In the case of a single body revolving around the sun this plane is that of its orbit. When all the bodies of the system are taken into account, the invariable plane is a certain mean among the planes of all the orbits.
In the case of the solar system the moment of Jupiter is so preponderant that the position of the invariable plane does not deviate much from that of the orbit of Jupiter. The influence of Saturh comes next in determining it, that of all the other
planets
  is much smaller. The latest computation of the position of this plane is by T. J. J. See, whose result for the position of the invariable plane is inclination to
ecliptic
  10 35' 7'74, longitude of node on
ecliptic
  Io6 8' 46,,.7 (Eq. 1850).


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