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Course Name	Turkish	Orbital Mechanics
	English	Orbital Mechanics
Course Code	UZB 352E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Demet Çilden Güler
Course Objectives		The objective of the course is to provide the students of aerospace engineering with the fundamental understanding of laws of motions of celestial bodies and orbital vehicles and give information on the applications of these laws.
Course Description		Dynamics of Point Masses, Two-Body Problem, Orbital Positions as a Function of Time, Orbits in Three Dimensions, Preliminary Orbit Determination, Orbital Maneuvers, Interplanetary Trajectories.
Course Outcomes		Students, who passed the course satisfactorily can: Understand the natural laws related with orbital mechanics Understand the basic physical properties related with orbital mechanics Know the orbital elements Know the Low Earth Orbits and their usages Know the coordinate systems and performs the transformations among them Determine the orbit in Central force approximation (such as Gibbs method, ete.) Calculate the time passing in orbit Calculate the speed changes related with the orbital maneuvers. Calculate the basic design parameters (time, speed changes) related with the interplanetary orbits.
Pre-requisite(s)		DNK 201E MIN DD or DNK 201 MIN DD or DNK 203E MIN DD or DNK 203 MIN DD
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Textbook		Howard D. Curtis, Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Revised Fourth Edition, Elsevier, Aerospace Engineering Series, 2021.
Other References		David A. Vallado, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications, Fourth Edition, Microcosm Press, 2013.

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