Lectures related to Projet Icarus: Landing of a rocket

Rocket Physics Fundamentals

Covers the fundamentals of rocket physics, including center of mass, momentum, and rocket speed.

Variable Mass System and Accelerated Frames

Explores variable mass systems, rocket thrust, takeoff conditions, and accelerated frames.

Lessons from Space Exploration

Offers a historical overview of space exploration, focusing on key successes and failures.

Mechanics Problem Resolution: Rocket & Gas System

Covers the resolution of mechanics problems, focusing on a rocket and gas system.

Rocket Problem

Covers the Rocket Problem, exploring momentum diagrams, mass relations, rocket thrust, and providing a solution for no external forces.

Launchers and Spaceports

Covers different types of launchers and major spaceports worldwide.

Introduction to Space Propulsion Systems

Introduces the principles and applications of space propulsion systems.

Nuclear and Electric Propulsion

Explores nuclear and electric propulsion systems for space missions using hydrogen, xenon, and argon propellants.

Variable Mass Systems: Rocket Example

Explores the concept of variable mass systems using a rocket example.

Rocket Example: Tracking a Trajectory

Discusses negative feedback in trajectory tracking and presents a detailed example with the Falcon 9 rocket.

Model Predictive Control: Mechatronic Applications

Explores Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for fast mechatronic systems and its applications in rocket control, autonomous parking, and racing.

Variable Mass System: Rocket

Covers the mechanics of rockets ejecting mass at a constant rate.

Rocket Thrust and Conservation Principles

Explores conservation principles in rocket thrust and ejection speed measurement at Polytechnic University.

Salarie de la peur

Covers modeling a truck carrying nitroglycerin and analyzing forces on a rocket in space.

Spacecraft Propulsion

Explores spacecraft propulsion principles, including thrust, acceleration, efficiency, and chemical propulsion in space mission design.

Supersonic Wind Tunnel - EPFL Rocket Team

Presents a project to visualize supersonic flows for rocket design.

Advanced Physics I: Energy and Solid Bodies

Covers energy, collisions, variable mass systems, and dynamics of solid bodies, including rotation around a symmetry axis.

Continuous Mass Transfer: Momentum and Systems Analysis

Covers continuous mass transfer, momentum diagrams, and systems with changing mass.

Rocket Team: 2023-24

Showcases the EPFL Rocket Team's projects for 2023-24, focusing on bi-liquid engines and rocketry basics.

Rocket Team Project Hyperion: Bi-Liquid Pump Design for Rocket Engine

Presents the EPFL Rocket Team's project Hyperion, detailing the design of a bi-liquid pump for a rocket engine.