AENG 3150 (Spring 2018 - archived)

• • Course Resources

    • Syllabus (Spring 2018)

    • Course website (Spring 2018)

• 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

• [items marked with a * indicate that you must be signed in with your SLU account to view]

• • 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

  • • First Exam:

      • The equation sheet (listed above) will be provided

    • Practice Exam 1

    • Solutions to Practice Exam 1

    • Second Exam

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

    • Practice Exam 2

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

    • Solutions to Exam 2 (Spring 2018)

• Homework Assignments

  • • HW01: Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen! (Due Thu 02/01 5pm)

    • HW02: You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. (Due Tue 02/13 5pm)

    • 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... (Due Thu 02/22)

    • HW04: Never give up! Never surrender! (Due Fri 03/09)

    • HW06: I don't believe in the no-win scenario (Due Tue 03/27)

    • HW07: Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence (Due Thu 04/12)

    • HW08: You do the math. You solve one problem... and you solve the next one... and then the next. And If you solve enough problems, you get to come home. (Due Thu 04/19)

      • The assignment is simple: beat my score. Email me your selected mission profile (semimajor axis & eccentricity 12 pts), your score (2 pts), and how you arrived at that design (11 pts).

      • Earth-to-Mars Interplanetary Worksheet. * You will have to copy the sheet in order to change the numbers.

    • HW09: You're backed into a hyperdimensional corner (Due Tue 05/01)

• • Orbit Design Project

    • SMART Project (Due in class Thu 05/03)

    • Student evaluation sheet

    • Online evaluation form

      • Teams

• • • Planetary Constants