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% Computes the flight path angle from eccentricity and true anomaly. This is the angle between the tangent to r and the velocity vector for any orbit. Since version 1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Form: [gamma, cgamma, sgamma] = FPA( e, nu ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Inputs ------ e Eccentricity nu True anomaly ------- Outputs ------- gamma The flight path angle cgamma Cosine of gamma sgamma Sine of gamma --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Orbit: OrbitMechanics/NuInf Common: CommonData/SwooshWatermark Common: General/CellToMat Common: General/MatToCell Common: General/Watermark Common: Graphics/NewFig Common: Graphics/Plot2D Common: Graphics/PltStyle Common: Graphics/TextS
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