Gravitational Assisted Trajectories - making your own pictures and trajectory study

Abstract

The paper presents a possibility how to attract high school students to physics - the teaching of the gravitational assist. It is a technique used for interplanetary flights.

In the paper is presented how we can make our own diagrams of trajectories and velocities of spacecrafts, several examples of such diagrams are included in the paper.

Keywords

• gravitational assist
• motivation
• high school