Scientific Python and Julia tutorials

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Minigame Python Beginner 25 min

Orbital plane change: a 28.5° turn costs almost as much as the climb to GEO

Afterwards you can compute the Δv of a plane change, fold it into a Hohmann burn at apogee, and explain why GEO launch sites sit near the equator.

Ordinary differential equations Engineering, Physics

Minigame Python Beginner 25 min

Gravity assist past Jupiter: faster in the Sun's frame, not in Jupiter's

Afterwards you can explain a gravity assist as a turn of the velocity in the planet's frame, and compute the Sun-frame speed it adds and the planet's recoil.

Ordinary differential equations Engineering, Physics