Class Notes
Lecture Notes
Lecture 1 Notes - January 16 (Course Overview and Questions)
Lecture 2 Notes - January 23 (Keplerian to Cartesian)
Lecture 3 Notes - February 11 (Jacobi's Integral / Zero Patched Conic)
Lecture 4 Notes - February 06 (Optimal Staging and Lagrange Multipliers)
Lecture 5 Notes - February 13 (More on Optimization)
Lecture 6 Notes - February 20 (The Art and Science of Lunar Gravity Assist)
Lecture 7 Notes - February 27 (Uncommon Sense in Orbit Mechanics)
Lecture 8 Notes - March 06 (Lunar Cyclers)
Lecture 9 Notes - March 13 (Gravity, Potential, Orbit Perturbations, and Kaula's Solution) and Blair's Handout
Lecture 10 Notes - March 20 (Artificial Satellite Theory)
Lecture 11 Notes - April 03 (Artificial Satellite Theory)
Lecture 12 Notes - April 10 (Orbit Perturbation Theory)
Lecture 13 Notes - April 17 (Perturbation Coupling)
Lecture 14 Notes - April 24 (Wrap up of several items)
Lecture 15 Notes - April 24 (Course Wrap-up and Answer to Course Question)
Lab Notes
Lab 2 Notes - February 4 (Lambert's Problem)
Lab 4 Notes - February 15 (B-Plane)
Lab 7 Notes - March 11 (Three-Dimensional Gravity Swingbys)