It’s possible to match two interesting things: flight dynamics and interactive programming with Python. The magic tool we’re going to use is called Jupyter Notebook. Basically, it’s Python programming done with our favourite web browser.
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Longitudinal Flight Dynamics!
Flight dynamics is a fancy name to indicate the study of motion and performance of aircraft. Describing mathematically the motion of aeroplanes is a very complex matter! The starting point is the classical mechanics and the assumption of rigid motion. However, since aeroplanes can accelerate, decelerate, change trajectory and so on, the equations must be written in a particular way.