Exterior Ballistics: History, Theory and Implementation
Introductory course on exterior ballistics for a wide range of practical and technical / programming audiences
Ratings 4.39 / 5.00
What You Will Learn!
- History of exterior ballistics
- Fundamentals of aerodynamic drag
- Equations of motion for the point mass problem
- Numerical integration
- Simplifications like Siacci and Pejsa methods
- Corrective mechanisms
- 6 degree of freedom methods and challenges
- Coding up a simple point mass solver
Description
This course introduces the history, theory and basic implementation of exterior ballistics. It is geared for everyone from the practically-minded who want to refresh their knowledge of ballistic coefficient to the technically-minded who want to learn in broad strokes about the field, to the programmer-minded who wants to code an implementation. The course walks through a wide range of material conceptually, and presents fairly deep details with regard to implementing a simple exterior ballistics solver. In some parts it would be helpful to have a modest mathematical and programming background.
Who Should Attend!
- Anyone interested in exterior ballistics
- Anyone interested in numerical methods
- Anyone interested in forensic science who is specifically interested in ballistics
- Anyone interested in long range shooting sports
