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/u/another_user_name posted this list a while back. Actual aerospace textbooks are towards the bottom but you'll need a working knowledge of the prereqs first.
Non-core/Pre-reqs:
Mathematics:
Calculus.
1-4) Calculus, Stewart -- This is a very common book and I felt it was ok, but there's mixed opinions about it. Try to get a cheap, used copy.
1-4) Calculus, A New Horizon, Anton -- This is highly valued by many people, but I haven't read it.
1-4) Essential Calculus With Applications, Silverman -- Dover book.
More discussion in this reddit thread.
Linear Algebra
3) Linear Algebra and Its Applications,Lay -- I had this one in school. I think it was decent.
3) Linear Algebra, Shilov -- Dover book.
Differential Equations
4) An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, Coddington -- Dover book, highly reviewed on Amazon.
G) Partial Differential Equations, Evans
G) Partial Differential Equations For Scientists and Engineers, Farlow
More discussion here.
Numerical Analysis
5) Numerical Analysis, Burden and Faires
Chemistry:
Physics:
2-4) Physics, Cutnel -- This was highly recommended, but I've not read it.
Programming:
Introductory Programming
Programming is becoming unavoidable as an engineering skill. I think Python is a strong introductory language that's got a lot of uses in industry.
Core Curriculum:
Introduction:
Aerodynamics:
Thermodynamics, Heat transfer and Propulsion:
Flight Mechanics, Stability and Control
5+) Flight Stability and Automatic Control, Nelson
5+)[Performance, Stability, Dynamics, and Control of Airplanes, Second Edition](http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Stability-Dynamics-Airplanes-Education/dp/1563475839/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315534435&sr=8-1, Pamadi) -- I gather this is better than Nelson
Engineering Mechanics and Structures:
3-4) Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, Hibbeler
6-8) Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures, Bruhn -- A good reference, never really used it as a text.
G) Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous Medium, Malvern
G) Fracture Mechanics, Anderson
G) Mechanics of Composite Materials, Jones
Electrical Engineering
Design and Optimization
Space Systems
> one thing I always found amusing was that "rocket science" was orders of magnitude simpler to calculate than a simple two link piston turning a flywheel.
Are you certain you're not confusing rocket science with
ballisticsspace dynamics?These were the 3 I picked up.
This one seems to be the most popular, probably because of it's publication timeframe, 1971. Not too early, not too late.
This is an earlier textbook and is considered a classic at this point. Still useful.
While less popular (and more expensive), I found this one to be my favorite. Hard to say why, some combination of layout, examples, and teaching style. The fact that it was also published in my lifetime, unlike the other 2, might have something to do with it as well in terms of language, etc.
But take /u/The_Mother_of_Robots advice and don't do it. This is a
slippery slopethick atmosphere in a deep gravity well. There is no Lagrange point, just the abyss.You can start here.
When I took the intro course on spaceflight dynamics in college, it was either a 300 or 400 level course, but I don't remember it being really difficult. There are real textbooks on the subject should you want more information.
Sure!
This first one is the one I like the best:
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
Spaceflight Dynamics: Third Edition
Introduction to Space Dynamics
They're all heavy on equations and there's a lot of overlap among them. I found the first one, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, to be the most approachable.
Well, you shouldn't be 100% sure there's 'no' weight, either. Because gravitational fields go as 1/r^2 so even in deep space there are small, but non-zero gravitational forces acting on masses. Which means those masses have small but non-zero weight.
If you're curious about the details of how rockets work, a better source for information than flat-earth blogs would be books on rockets. And rockets are super interesting. The basics of rocket motion are mathematically fairly straightforward (though still not exactly easy: variational-mass problems are a bit tricky and require a bit of practice with calculus.) But then the details of rockets, from an engineering standpoint, and controlling 3-dimensional motion in a precise way is super complicated. So is long-distance space flight-path dynamics because of the motion of the planets. Things like sling-shotting around Jupiter for a gravitational assist.
So if it's something you're interested in, you can really get super deep into it and never run out of things to learn. Something like this might be a nice start, assuming you have a reasonable mathematical background.
Have fun!
well you can read course curriculums, hell you can take all of MIT's aerospace engineering courses online for free im sure. they have lectures and exams available.
high level textbooks...after the calculus/physics ones?
http://www.amazon.com/Aircraft-Structures-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486485803
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Space-Dynamics-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486651134/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=514GSwPXTEL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR101%2C160_&refRID=1Z881GSF57615HXRYT1N
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Aerodynamics-5th-John-Anderson/dp/0073398101/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463955973&sr=1-2&keywords=aerodynamics
http://www.amazon.com/Gas-Dynamics-3rd-James-John/dp/0131206680/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463956004&sr=1-1&keywords=gas+dynamics
important math is just calculus, differential equations, linear algebra. arguably algebra and trigonometry are the most used and needed to master.
no knowledge of any engineering is required for engineering students coming in.
btw astronomy is basically useless unless you want to do planetary science...orbital mechanics is a separate field
Your link got me to purchase the current version of that book and Introduction to Space Dynamics. I'm working through the latter, though, as I found Bate's book completely beyond me–though good reading for the bit I did. Intro to Space Dynamics is proving very difficult, but I'm at least making some progress and feel like I have a chance at understanding it.
In short, thank you!
I've got that exact book and this sitting on my nightstand. More books are on my desk too