A model aircraft is pointed straight down with its engines off. After five seconds, it deploys its speedbrakes. This is a graph of its velocity. See Homework 1 Problem 9 for the full problem and a MATLAB script modeling the solution. (Photograph courtesy of Dean Ritola on flickr. License: CC BY-NC.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Daniel Frey
Prof. Gilbert Strang
MIT Course Number
2.087
As Taught In
Fall 2014
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Selected video lectures
- Captions/transcript
- Assignments: problem sets (no solutions)
- Assignments: programming with examples
- Exams (no solutions)
Course Description
This course is about the mathematics that is most widely used in the mechanical engineering core subjects: An introduction to linear algebra and ordinary differential equations (ODEs), including general numerical approaches to solving systems of equations.