Orbital mechanics for engineering students [electronic resource] / Howard D. Curtis.
* A complete, stand-alone text for this core aerospace engineering subject * NEW: updated throughout, with new coverage of perturbations, Lambert's problem, attitude dynamics, and techniques for numerically integrating orbits * NEW: more examples and homework problems, more Matlab algorithms *...
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Full Text (via ScienceDirect) |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Kidlington, Oxford, UK ; Burlington, MA :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
©2010.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Elsevier aerospace engineering series.
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| Summary: | * A complete, stand-alone text for this core aerospace engineering subject * NEW: updated throughout, with new coverage of perturbations, Lambert's problem, attitude dynamics, and techniques for numerically integrating orbits * NEW: more examples and homework problems, more Matlab algorithms * NEW: improved support material, including instructor solutions manual and lecture PowerPoint slides. * NEW: Reorganized and improved discusions of coordinate systems, new discussion on perturbations and quarternions * NEW: Increased coverage of attitude dynamics, including new Matlab algorithms and examples in chapter 10 * New examples and homework problems * Highly illustrated and fully supported with downloadable MATLAB algorithms for project and practical work; fully worked examples throughout; extensive homework exercises; Instructor's Manual and lecture slides. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed on Apr 4, 2012) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 722 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-708) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780080887845 0080887848 |