aeng-3150-spring-2017

• • Syllabus (Spring 2017)

• Useful (and semi-useful) things

  • • Everything you need to know about orbital mechanics on one (double-sided) page.

    • A 15-minute primer on using Matlab.

    • A Scale Model of the Universe, built in the Desert (7 Minutes)

    • Matthew Hansen's Orbitron 5000 (simple Earth orbit visualization tool)

    • AGI's Spacebook (real-time viewer of all cataloged spacecraft in orbit)

• Presentations

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• • Prussing Chapter 1:

    • • Classic orbits: ellipse and hyperbola *

  • Prussing Chapter 2:

• • • Calculating time as a function of position (13 Minutes) *

    • Examples (16 Minutes) *

    • Prussing Chapter 6:

      • The Rocket Equation (11:44)

      • Rocket equation summary

      • Handouts *

    • Prussing Chapter 7:

      • Handouts *

    • Mission Flowdown *

    • Interplanetary Mission Analysis *

    • Earth Orbits *

• Midterm Preparation

  • • The equation sheet (listed above) will be provided

• • Practice Exam 1

    • • Solutions to Practice Exam 1

• • • The equation sheet will be provided, as will this one: Rocket Equations

• • Practice Exam 2.

• • • Solutions to Practice Exam 2 (Problem 2d is corrected!)

• Homework Assignments

  • • HW01: Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!

    • HW02: You know, sometimes I amaze even myself.

    • HW03: You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds...

    • HW04: I don't believe in the no-win scenario.

    • HW05: We are from the Planet DUPLO; we are here to destroy you.

      • Use this link to test your code: HW05 Code Test

      • Update: Since problem 5 is a repeat of a question on HW03, you can skip it, or fill it out again, if you want. Either way, you'll get full credit.

    • HW06: Movie Review of "Mars: Dead or Alive"

    • HW07: Never Give Up, Never Surrender

    • HW08: Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence ...

• Orbit Design Project

• SMART Project

• • Assignment

  • Teams

    • • ALPHA: Alhasan, Cantu, Mejía

      • BRAVO: Deliso, Hunsaker, Cronin, Zhang

      • CHARLIE: Belter, Dumar, Engle

      • DANGER: Clabots, Farmer, Ferragut-Urrea,

      • ECHO: Lopez, O'Neill, Reczek

      • FOXTROT: Simsarian, Trefilek, Perez

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