Course Info
Course Coordinator
Suiker, A.S.J.
About this course
| Study load (hrs) |
| 75 |
| Level |
| Bachelor |
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Aerospace Engineering |
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Dynamics and Stability
(AE4914)Photograph of Foucault's pendulum, worlds first simple proof that the earth is rotating.
| Description |
| This course will the student provide a background in advanced methods of dynamics and their application to relevant problems in aerospace engineering. The course is given in lecture form, and includes various elaborated example problems relevant for aerospace engineering. course content: Principles of dynamics: Newton's laws, motion with respect to non-inertial reference frames, fictitious forces, conservative systems, phase portraits, virtual work. Lagrangian dynamics: Generalised coordinates, constraints, generalised momenta, generalised forces, Lagrange equations of motion, Lagrangian function, conservative and dissipative systems, constraint forces, Lagrange multipliers, integrals of motion, Jacobi energy function, ignorable coordinates, steady motion. Stability: Definitions, stability of linearised systems, application to general problems and steady motion. Variational analysis: Extrema of integral functionals, Euler-Lagrange equation, essential and natural boundary conditions, Hamilton's principle. Dynamics of rotating bodies: Kinematics, inertia tensor, Euler's equations of motion, moment-free motion, Euler angles, gyrodynamics, steady precession. |
