SATELLITE DYNAMICS

EMA 489

Undergraduate research and senior honors thesis in engineering mechanics and astronautics.

ASTRON/EMA 550

Coordinate system transformations, central force motion, two body problem, three and n-body problem, theory of orbital perturbations, artificial satellites, elementary transfer orbits, and elementary rocket dynamics.

EMA 202

Kinematics, force-mass-acceleration relations, work and energy, impulse and momentum, moments of inertia and mass.

EMA 745

Emphasis is placed on techniques used to analyze aerospace structures. Variational principles, Hamilton's extended principle, Lagrange's equations, mathematical models for continuous systems, natural modes of vibrations, dynamic response using mode superposition, mode acceleration, residual flexibility, vibration analysis using finite element methods, advanced substructure representations, component mode synthesis, systems with rigid body modes for aeronautical and astronautical systems. Knowledge of vibrations [such asE M A 545orM E 440] strongly encouraged.

EMA 542

Kinematics and kinetics of plane and three-dimensional motion, Coriolis acceleration, general methods of linear and angular momentum, central force motion, gyrodynamics, generalized coordinates. Lagrange's equations.