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Gravitational Assisted Trajectories - making your own pictures and trajectory study

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2011

Abstract

The poster 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.

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