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
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.