Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students
ISBN: 9780123747785 | 0123747783
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Pub. Date: 10/26/2009
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* A complete, stand-alone text for this core aerospace engineering subject * NEW: updated throughout, with new coverage of perturbations, Lambert?s problem, attitude dynamics, and techniques for numerically integrating orbits * NEW: more examples and homework problems, more Matlab algorithms * NEW: improved support material, including instructor solutions manual and lecture PowerPoint slides. * NEW: Reorganized and improved discusions of coordinate systems, new discussion on perturbations and quarternions * NEW: Increased coverage of attitude dynamics, including new Matlab algorithms and examples in chapter 10 * New examples and homework problems * Highly illustrated and fully supported with downloadable MATLAB algorithms for project and practical work; fully worked examples throughout; extensive homework exercises; Instructor's Manual and lecture slides.
| Dynamics of Point Masses | |
| The Two-Body Problem | |
| Orbital Position as a Function of Time | |
| Orbits in Three Dimensions | |
| Preliminary Orbit Determination | |
| Orbital Maneuvers | |
| Relative Motion and Rendezvous | |
| Interplanetary Trajectories | |
| Rigid-Body Dynamics | |
| Satellite Attitude Dynamics | |
| Rocket... MORE | |
| Physical Data | |
| A Road Map | |
| Numerical Integration of the n-Body Equations of Motion | |
| Matlab Algorithms | |
| Gravitational Potential Energy of a Sphere | |
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