§15 Problem 3 Perihelion precession from a perturbation

A worked solution to Problem 3 of §15, Kepler's problem, in Chapter 3, Integration of the Equations of Motion, of L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Mechanics, 3rd ed. (1976). Solution by Pierre-Olivier Bolduc.

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