Kinematics: Describing the Motions of Spacecraft
Completed by Balavignesh Elavarasu
November 4, 2025
28 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Differentiate a vector as seen by another rotating frame and derive frame dependent velocity and acceleration vectors
Apply the Transport Theorem to solve kinematic particle problems and translate between various sets of attitude descriptions
Add and subtract relative attitude descriptions and integrate those descriptions numerically to predict orientations over time
Derive the fundamental attitude coordinate properties of rigid bodies and determine attitude from a series of heading measurements
Skills you will gain
- Category: Control Systems
- Category: Calculus
- Category: Linear Algebra
- Category: Engineering Calculations
- Category: Trigonometry
- Category: Differential Equations
- Category: Mechanics
- Category: Applied Mathematics
- Category: Engineering Analysis
- Category: Mathematical Modeling
- Category: Algorithms
- Category: Advanced Mathematics
