Modeling & Simulation

Students will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned and develop computer models that simulate the ‘physical’ processes.  They can quickly understand, through the aid of the simulation, how sensitive the dynamic processes are to small variations in the initial conditions

Application of Forces

Trajectories

  • Key Performance Parameters of the System
  • Rocket Equation
  • Torque
    • Moments of inertia
    • Center-of-Gravity, Center-of-Pressure
  • Motion of the Moons of Jupiter

Elastic / Inelastic Collisions

Billiard Shots

  • Conservation Principles
  • Vector Analysis

Evolution of the Solar System

  • Why a Disk?
  • Partitioning of Terrestrial Planets and Gaseous Giants
  • Born to Die – So Many Dead Worlds… Why?

Calculating the center-of-pressure of a circular arc

Be it Statics or Dynamics, the simple landscape can be defined

Considerations beyond the isolated ‘Life-in-a-Vacuum’ can be factored and integrated

  • Indeed, what about Drag?

Variations to the problem space’s governing parameters can then be explored and analyzed

  • Consider Friction of Surface