Difficult conceptually, but he gives guidance in office hours for every HW, project, and quiz. The quizzes are more like mini project involving derivations which are based on his course notes (fully open note and untimed). Requires basic programming/MATLAB skills and a strong foundation in DEQ/calc.

Orbital elements, orbital propagation, orbital transfers. Very interesting but probably not very useful for most people's career paths. This class does however teach useful analysis skills and will improve your understanding of MATLAB.

Professor is excellent and really cares about his students succeeding/learning. Would take more courses with him if I could.

If you go to office hours when you are stuck, he will help you will succeed and get an A+. There are plenty of extra credit opportunities too. This class does require a lot of effort to understand, but I was never stressed about grades. Each assignment builds on the previous, so don't get behind.

Project heavy, lots of intensive homework assignments, pretty cool material.

Moderately/extremely useful for space orbital projects in the future.

Can put students on the spot can embarrass students that don't know what they're doing. If you accept the embarrassment of not knowing and get to his explanation, he will absolutely help with projects and homework assignments.

The difficulty of this course depends on your professor. Norman is unable to use canvas correctly and instead of making homework assignments he makes announcements. Thinks that his homework and exam problems are "simple" calculus. Would not recommend taking this class with him.

The class is mainly proofs of various astrodynamic theories. You won't learn much astrodynamics but will relearn various calculus 1 and calculus 2 techniques.

Extremely condescending, asking questions will typically result in him yelling at you. Will leave rude comments on your work when reviewing.

This is essentially Dynamics 2, so I would highly recommend taking this class right after you take the first dynamics.