Space Grant Consortium - University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

The input of the “point to body” script is nine sets acceleration measurements (three axis at three
locations) as well as estimated initial velocity vectors. The outout is two plots that show the
change in body angular velocity and acceleration around the three principle axis. Simple
modifications will also allow for the linear acceleration of the centroid to be output as a function
of time, as well. The same variability of time step and simulation duration exists with this
implementation, but as these parameters will be dictated by the input measurements, they are
only relevant in the calculations themselves. In the figures below, a constant angular acceleration
of 1 rad/sec/sec was applied about the Z-axis in the corresponding simulation.
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