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| view | mp4 | 8/20/18 | Intro to DCMs, projecting the basis vectors, properties of DCMs |
| view | mp4 | 8/22/18 | properties of DCMs, xforming vector components, simple rotations |
| view | mp4 | 8/24/18 | Review of DCMs, vector comp. xforms, order of rotations, example (vector comp. xform) |
| view | mp4 | 8/27/18 | Euler rotations, Euler angles, angular velocity vector, deriv. of vector wrt different frames |
| view | mp4 | 8/29/18 | derivative of a vector wrt different frames, example |
| view | mp4 | 8/31/18 | example with multiple rotating frames note the error: the DCM used at the end should be transposed. This is corrected in the pdf lecture notes in Canvas. |
| 9/3/18 | No classes -- Labor Day | ||
| view | mp4 | 9/5/18 | derivative of a vector wrt diff. frames (expressed in terms of diff. basis vectors); acceleration wrt diff. frames |
| view | mp4 | 9/7/18 | baseball on a space station; Coriolis accel. and hurricanes |
| view | mp4 | 9/10/18 | body rates and Euler rates |
| view | mp4 | 9/12/18 | rocket propulsion |
| view | mp4 | 9/14/18 | specific impulse, rocket propulsion technologies |
| view | mp4 | 9/17/18 | solid propellants, electric propulsion |
| view | mp4 | 9/19/18 | laser and nuclear propulsion, staging, gravity loss |
| view | mp4 | 9/21/18 | numerical integraton of ODEs |
| view | mp4 | 9/24/18 | Law of Universal Gravitation; gravitational potential energy; specific energy and angular momentum |
| view | mp4 | 9/26/18 | ang. mom. vector is constant in a 2-body system! |
| view | mp4 | 9/28/18 | The Orbit Equation |
| view | mp4 | 10/1/18 | orbit types (conic sections), orbit terminology |
| view | mp4 | 10/3/18 | vis-viva integral, Kepler's Laws |
| view | mp4 | 10/5/18 | Kepler's Equation, Newton-Raphson iteration |
| view | mp4 | 10/8/18 | example: solving Kepler's Eq. using N-R iteration; perifocal coordinates |
| view | mp4 | 10/10/18 | r and v in perifocal coords, more orbit properties, ECI coords. |
| view | mp4 | 10/12/18 | orbital elements, quadrant checks! |
| view | mp4 | 10/15/18 | xforming between ECI and perifocal coords., intro to orbital transfers |
| view | mp4 | 10/17/18 | Hohmann xfers |
| view | mp4 | 10/19/18 | impulsive approximation, single-impulse maneuvers and the Law of Cosines |
| view | mp4 | 10/22/18 | rotation of the LOA, pure inclination changes |
| view | mp4 | 10/24/18 | inclination change example, GEO |
| view | mp4 | 10/26/18 | (Tech Failure: partial screen capture) oblateness effects, sun-synchronous and Molniya orbits |
| view | mp4 | 10/29/18 | center of mass, center of gravity (not the same!) |
| view | mp4 | 10/31/18 | c.m., vs. c.g., low-thrust transfers, rendezvous |
| view | mp4 | 11/2/18 | rendezvous (cont'd), angular momentum of a rigid body |
| view | mp4 | 11/5/18 | ang. mom., inertia matrix and properties, rotational kinetic energy |
| view | mp4 | 11/7/18 | Kinetic energy of rotation, Euler's Eqs. of Rigid Body Motion |
| view | mp4 | 11/9/18 | torque-free, axisymmetric case (see p.4 in pdf for info on omega_12) |
| 11/12-16/18 | no lectures -- compensation for 3 evening tests, per university policy | ||
| 11/19-23/18 | Thanksgiving break | ||
| view | mp4 | 11/26/18 | transforming from arbitrary to principal axis coord sys, principal MOIs (correction on p. 4 in pdf file) |
| view | mp4 | 11/28/18 | body & space cones for axisymmetric, torque-free motion, gyroscopic stiffness, stability of rotation abt princ. axes |
| view | mp4 | 11/30/18 | demo of unstable rot. about intermediate inertia axis, Explorer I, demo of gyrosc. stiffness |
| view | mp4 | 12/3/18 | passive vs. active control, gravity-gradient stabilization, att. control with thrusters |
| view | mp4 | 12/5/18 | reaction wheels, momentum wheels, control moment gyros, attitude sensing |
| view | mp4 | 12/7/18 | thermal equilibrium, reaction wheel calcs., MEMS rate sensors, Van Allen radiation belts |