
Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students
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Readership
Undergraduate students in aerospace, astronautical, mechanical engineering, and engineering physics; related professional aerospace and space engineering fields
Table of Contents
1. Dynamics of Point Masses
2. The Two-Body Problem
3. Orbital Position as a Function of Time
4. Orbits in Three Dimensions
5. Preliminary Orbit Determination
6. Orbital Maneuvers
7. Relative Motion and Rendezvous
8. Interplanetary Trajectories
9. Lunar Trajectories
10. Introduction to Orbital Perturbations
11. Rigid Body Dynamics
12. Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics
13. Rocket Vehicle DynamicsAppendix A Physical Data
Appendix B A Road Map
Appendix C Numerical Integration of the N-Body Equations of Motion
Appendix D MATLAB Scripts
Appendix E Gravitational Potential of a Sphere
Appendix F Computing the Difference Between Nearly Equal Numbers
Appendix G Direction Cosine Matrix in Terms of the Unit Quaternion
Product details
- No. of pages: 780
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2020
- Published: August 31, 2020
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780323853453
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128240250
About the Author
Howard Curtis
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