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Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications

Product ID: ILAP
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Undergraduate

The Shuttle Problem (ILAP)

Author: Rich Marchand, et al.


Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

PART 1: ESCAPE SPEED

PART 2: ORBIT ANALYSIS

PART 3: SATELLITE RETRIVAL

SAMPLE SOLUTION

NOTES FOR THE INSTRUCTOR

©1998 by COMAP, Inc.
Interdisciplinary Lively Application Project
15 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Calculus, Differential Equations

Application Areas:

Physical Sciences, Physics

Prerequisites:

Differential Equations
Differentiating Vector Functions
Modeling Torque Using the Cross Product

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