Dynamics of Aerospace Vehicles

A graduate-level treatment of how aircraft actually move through the air: you write the six-degree-of-freedom equations in a body frame, rotate between inertial and body axes with Euler angles, then split the resulting nonlinear system into longitudinal and lateral channels you can linearize around trim. Expect problem sets where you derive small-disturbance models, check static and dynamic stability of specific airframes, and close basic pitch and roll control loops, with Stengel and Nelson as the working references. It is the foundation course before anything serious in flight control, guidance, or UAV autonomy, and assumes you are already comfortable with rigid-body dynamics and linear systems.