This book is a unified presentation, demonstrating that the two disciplines have actually evolved from the same set of physical principles. Primarily useful as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate-level students, the work is also an excellent reference or self-study guide for researchers and practitioners in aerospace engineering, aviation, mechanical engineering, dynamics, astrodynamics, aeronautics, and astronautics.

Key features include
• an introduction to a broad range of modern topics in an accessible, yet mathematically rigorous presentation;
• many numerical examples and simulations utilizing MATLAB® and Simulink®;
• software used as an instructional, hands-on tool, moving away from the 'cookbook' approach found in other works; and
• numerous illustrations and end-of-chapter exercises.

Brief Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Attitude and Kinematics of Coordinate Frames
3 Planetary Form and Gravity
4 Translational Motion of Aerospace Vehicles
5 Orbital Mechanics
6 Perturbed Orbits
7 The Three-Body Problem
8 Rocket Propulsion
9 Planetary Atmosphere
10 Elements of Aerodynamics
11 Airbreathing Propulsion
12 Atmospheric and Transatmospheric Trajectories
13 Attitude Dynamics
14 Attitude Control Systems
15 Advanced Modeling and Simulation Concepts
Appendix: Numerical Integration of Ordinary DifferentialEquations
Answers to Selected Exercises
References
Index

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