Orbital mechanics for engineering students

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curtis, Howard D. (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Cambridge, MA Butterworth-Heinemann [2021]
Edition:Revised Fourth edition.
Series:Elsevier aerospace engineering series.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description: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. 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
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780323853453
0323853455