Information for Fall 2024 MAE142 Aerospace Vehicles

General information for Fall 2024 MAE142:

The course syllabus (in pdf format) contains information on the course objective, content and grading policy.

Lecture: T/Th 5:00-6:20, WLH 2205.

Problem Session/Review: T/Th 6:25-6:50, WLH 2205 and/or asychronously.

The course grade will be obtained as indicated on the syllabus.

Contact Information:

TA: Ahmed Atallah
- Problem session: Immediately following lecture, Th 6:20-6:50pm.
- Problem session/office hour: W 3-4pm, EBU2, Room 370.
- Problem session/office hour: W 9:30-10:30am on zoom. The zoom invitation data for the office hour can be found here.
- Email: aatallah@ucsd.edu

Instructor: Prof. William McEneaney
- Office hour: T 11:30am-12:30pm, 1809 EBU 1 (or contact me to set up a time).
- Office: 1809 EBU 1.
- Email: wmceneaney@ucsd.edu

Take-Home Final:

The take-home final may be found here in pdf format.

Presentations:

Presentation assignment information can be found here in pdf format.

TENTATIVE Quiz Schedule:

Quiz 1: Tuesday, October 22.

Quiz 2: Thursday, November 14.

Regarding the quizzes:

You must bring a blue book.
You may bring a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of HANDWRITTEN notes (both sides).
Bring a pen (preferably two). Your quiz should be done in pen - not pencil. If it is done in pencil, regrade requests will be denied.
You must bring your ID.
You may bring a calculator, but it must be not exceed the following dimensions: 7.75 inches long, 3.75 inches wide.
The calculator must NOT be a graphing calculator.

Homework Assignments:

Notes regarding homework:

See the syllabus regarding due date and time.
Also note the remark there about the fact that the homework you hand in must be clearly your own.
Your homework must be handed in through gradescope by the indicated deadline.
The entry code for the course on gradescope is WW5P22.

Homework Assignment #1 may be found here in pdf format. Solutions for Homework Assignment #1 may be found here in pdf format.

Homework Assignment #2 may be found here in pdf format. Solutions for Homework Assignment #2 may be found here in pdf format.

Homework Assignment #3 may be found here in pdf format. Solutions for Homework Assignment #3 may be found here in pdf format.

References:

Two standard books related to the material are available online from the library. These are:

A. Tewari, Atmospheric and Space Flight Dynamics, Birkauser, c2007.

A. Tewari, Advanced Control of Aircraft, Rockets, and Spacecraft, Wiley, c2011. .

Other books and references:

A.E. Bryson and Y.-C. Ho, Applied Optimal Control, CRC Press, 1975 (orig. ed.). (Material from this may be provided electronically at a later time.)

N.X. Vinh, A. Busemann and R.D. Culp, Hypersonic and Planetary Entry Flight Mechanics, Univ. Mich. Press, 1980.

Additional material will be provided as aids for the later topics.

Material regarding normal random vectors may be found here in pdf format.
Material regarding the Kalman filter may be found here and here in pdf format. The actual Kalman filter equations appear on page 361 (the final page).
Material regarding hypersonic flight may be found here in pdf format.
Alternate material regarding hypersonic flight (provided only as another example) may be found here in pdf format.

Approximate list of topics to be covered:

Linear algebra review.
Rotations.
Systems of ODEs.
Vehicle dynamics.
Linearization.
Navigation.
Hypersonic vehicles.

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