Howard D. Curtis

Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written by Howard Curtis, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle University, Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students is a crucial text for students of aerospace engineering. Now in its 3e, the book has been brought up-to-date with new topics, key terms, homework exercises, and fully worked examples. Highly illustrated and fully supported with downloadable MATLAB algorithms for project and practical work, this book provides all the tools needed to fully understand the subject.

• New chapter on orbital perturbations
• New and revised examples and homework problems
• Increased coverage of attitude dynamics, including new MATLAB algorithms and examples

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780080977485
• Artikelnr.: 40071698

Autorenporträt

Professor Curtis is former professor and department chair of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He is a licensed professional engineer and is the author of two textbooks (Orbital Mechanics 3e, Elsevier 2013, and Fundamentals of Aircraft Structural Analysis, McGraw Hill 1997). His research specialties include continuum mechanics, structures, dynamics, and orbital mechanics.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Dynamics
Appendix A Physical Data B A Road Map C Numerical Integration of the N-Body
Equations of Motion D MATLAB Scripts E Gravitational Potential of a Sphere 
F Computing the Difference Between Nearly Equal Numbers G Direction Cosine
Matrix in Terms of the Unit Quaternion