Orbital Mechanics
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195078349 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Here, celestial mechanics is expanded into space aeronautics. "Prussing and Conway have written up their final-year university course. The book is a paragon of clarity and has problems and worked examples." --David Hughes (Univ of Sheffield), New Scientist"Good references and problem sets" --Choice
Prussing and Bruce A. Conway are Professors of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.. John A
Lacking as a goto Orbital Mechanics Text I own this because it was a required text when I was in school. I now work with the subject material. I would recommend Bate, Mueller, and White's book and/or Vallado's book instead.. If you study astrodynamics, it will be one of the best books This book explains the basic and advanced theory of orbit mechanics systematically and also provides information required to perform basic and advanced orbital analysis in examples.
Unlike many texts the authors also use first principles to derive other important results including Kepler's equation, Lambert's time-of-flight equation, the rocket equation, the Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire equations of relative motion, Gauss' equations for the variation of the elements, and the Gauss and Laplace methods of orbit determination. The subject of orbital mechanics is developed starting from the first principles, using Newton's laws of motion and the law of gravitation to prove Kepler's empirical laws of planetary motion. Today's students of aerospace engineering face t