Synopsis
Engineers and physicists find it useful to model physical systems using digital computers. With this book you will learn how this is done using a variety of example simulations that include: satellite orbit, aircraft flight, electronic circuit, mechanical system, laser beam propagation, and atmospheric turbulence simulations. The author assumes that you have never used discrete modeling methods and steps you through the concepts starting with easy methods and working up to the difficult ones. Extensive appendices are included for those that need tutoring in complex math and imaginary numbers, and derivation of the scalar wave equation. The author gives you the benefit of his 50-years of experience and has also made most of his computer code available upon request.
About the Author
In the last 50 years Andrew (Andy) Motes has been (in roughly chronological order) a sharecropper, woodcutter, trapper, grocery-store clerk, motorcycle mechanic, electronic technician, electronic engineer, computer software developer, space systems engineer or "rocket scientist," laboratory research scientist, laser physicist, author, teacher, college professor, military officer, civil servant, and defense contractor. He received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1978; his MS degree in Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1979 with a specialty in air and spacecraft Navigation, Guidance, and Control theory; and his PhD in 1987 from the University of New Mexico with a specialty in laser physics and electro-optics. All his degrees were earned while serving on active duty in the US Air Force. He worked on President Reagan's SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars") program, the Army's THEL (Tactical High Energy Laser) program, and the Air Force's ABL (Airborne Laser) program. He has been licensed to practice engineering in multiple states including New Mexico, Colorado, and Arkansas. He has written 19 books, nine commercial educational software packages (including the award winning and best-selling software called School-Mom), and many scientific journal and magazine articles. He taught Astronautical Engineering and control theory at the US Air Force Academy, Physics and Electronic Design at John Brown University, retired from the US Air Force Reserves in 2007 at the rank of Colonel, and retired from federal civil service in 2012.
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