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Kinematics: Describing the Motions of Spacecraft
This course is part of Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Specialization
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28 hours (approximately) 
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University of Colorado Boulder
About Kinematics: Describing the Motions of Spacecraft
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What You Will Learn?
- Differentiate a vector as seen by another rotating frame and derive frame dependent velocity and acceleration vectors.
- Apply the Transport Theorem to solve kinematic particle problems and translate between various sets of attitude descriptions.
- Add and subtract relative attitude descriptions and integrate those descriptions numerically to predict orientations over time.
- Derive the fundamental attitude coordinate properties of rigid bodies and determine attitude from a series of heading measurements.