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MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Kinematics Versus Dynamics Intro to Astrodynamics 1 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Kinematics versus Dynamics • Up to now we have mostly dealt with orbital motions from a kinematics point of view … I.e. Kepler’s laws Were used simply as descriptors of orbital motion • Kepler's laws are a reasonable approximation of the motions of a small body orbiting around a much larger body in a 2-body universe … but there are no Physics (I.e. Isaac Newton) Involved • Kepler derived his laws of planetary motion by Empirical observation only. 2 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Summary: Kepler’s Laws 3 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Kepler's Laws (cont'd) 4 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Kepler's Laws (cont'd) 5 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Time of Flight Final position Time of flight t1 t2 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Kepler's Laws (cont'd) 7 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Kepler's Laws (cont'd) Haven’t really proven this! Yet. 8 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Time-of-Flight Graphs 9 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Time-of-Flight Graphs (cont’d) 10 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Velocity Vector, re-examined (concluded) 11 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Angular Velocity of Spacecraft (cont’d) MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 13 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Isaac Newton • Sir Isaac Newton used his new calculus and laws of motion and gravitation to show that Kepler was right. • One day in 1682 he came up to his friend, Edmund Halley, and casually mentioned to him that he'd proved that, with a 1/r2 force law like gravity, planets orbit the sun in the shapes of conic sections. • This undoubtedly took Halley aback, as Newton had just revealed to him the nature of the Universe (at least the Universe as it was known then). 14 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Newton … •Halley then pressed Newton to publish his findings, but he realized that he'd forgotten the proof. • After struggling to remember how he had proved the t heorem, he published his work and it later appeared in full form in his classic work: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica -- commonly known as the Principia -- published in1687. • OK … let walk down Newton’s path to enlightenment! 15 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 16 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 17 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems You’ve seen it before ….. 18 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 19 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 20 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 21 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 22 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 23 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 24 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 25 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 26 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 27 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total Specific Energy • First Calculate Radius of Curvature of Ellipse 28 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total Specific Energy (2) • Next Calculate Radius of Curvature of Ellipse at Perigee 29 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total Specific Energy (3) eT constant everywhere in orbit • Now look at perigee condition force balance 30 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total Specific Energy (4) eT constant everywhere in orbit • Now look at perigee condition force balance 31 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total Specific Energy (5) eT constant everywhere in orbit … at perigee conditions • Sub Into Energy Equation 32 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total Specific Energy (6) eT constant everywhere in orbit • Similarly @ Apogee condition force balance 33 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total Specific Energy (5) eT constant everywhere in orbit … at perigee conditions • Sub Into Energy Equation 34 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems (6) 35 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Orbital Energy Review 36 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Orbital Energy MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Total … • 38 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Orbital Energy MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Postscript II: Escape Velocity Postscript:Escape Velocity MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Postscript II: Escape Velocity Postscript: Escape Velocity (cont'd) MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Postscript II: Escape Velocity + Postscript:Escape Velocity (cont'd) MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems How about for a parabolic trajectory? 43 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems How about for a parabolic trajectory? • Orbital Energy is with regard to an escape trajectory! •Circular, Elliptical Orbit à eT < 0 •Parabolic (Escape) Trajectory à eT = 0 •Hyperbolic Trajectory à eT >= 0 See Appendix 2.3.2 for Hyperbolic Trajectory Proof 44 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Vis-Viva Equation for All the Conic-Sections See Appendix 2.3.2 for Hyperbolic Trajectory Proof 45 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 3 46 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 47 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 48 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 49 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 50 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Appendix 2.3: Total Specific Orbital Energy Alternate Derivation 51 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 52 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 53 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 54 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 55 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems 56 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Appendix 2.3.2: Total Specific Orbital Energy for Hyperbolic Trajectory 57 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems How about for a hyperbolic trajectory? • Conservation of Energy and Angular Momentum still hold …. So …. 58 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy • Recall, from the “First Law” derivation 59 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy (continued) • At Perigee, n=0 60 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy (continued) • Substituting into energy equation And for a hyperbola 61 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy (continued) • Substituting into energy equation 62 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy (continued) • But from the General Form for the Conic section hyp 63 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy (continued) Evaluating at perigee 64 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy (continued) • Substituting into the Energy equation 65 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems Hyperbolic Energy (concluded) 66 MAE 5540 - Propulsion Systems.
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