Gain insights into using Python for mechanical and aerospace engineering. Learn about basics, graphing techniques, airfoil plotting, and dynamic pressure and orbital modeling in 2D and 3D.

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In this course, you will learn about the Python programming language in the context of mechanical and aerospace engineering. 

You will start with the basics of Python, like variables, collections, and different types of loops. Once you have the basics out of the way, the real fun begins. You will learn how to: graph thrust available and thrust required, graph dynamic pressure during a rocket launch, and how to plot airfoil coordinates. 

Towards the end, you will get a strong overview of orbital parameters and learn how to model both 2D and 3D static orbits. Once you’ve completed this course, you will have a better understanding of Python and how it works in the context of mechanical/aerospace engineering.

Python for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

`Pweave` uses Markdown to provide basic formatting like bolding text, italicizing text, and providing different header sizes. Here is a rundown on Markdown:

|Markdown|Result|
|-|-|
|`# Text`|Heading 1 (like a title font)|
|`## Text`|Heading 2 (subtitle font)|
|`### Text`|Heading 3|
|`**Text**`|**Text** (bold)|
|`*Text*`|*Text* (italics)|

In Python, a line with formatting needs to first have the single-line comment character `#`, then a single quote `'`, then the Markdown formatting.

```python
#' # This is equivalent to Heading 1 font
#' ## This is Heading 2
#' ### Heading 3
#' #### etc
#' **This is bold**
#' *This is italics*
```

There is also a marker `#+echo=False` to hide the printout of anything after that marker until the next section or end of file is reached. For example, if you wanted to hide the imports section:

```python
#' ## Imports
#+echo=False
......
#' ## Calculations
```

Anything between the `#+echo=False` and `#' ## Calculations` would be hidden from the new version. 

The Max Q program needs to be adjusted slightly to have all of the plotting at the end; as a result, the max values need to be broken out into different variables so that the last max value does not overwrite the others. The headers are also added before the imports, before the equations, before the calculation, and before the plotting.


Learn about Pweave and how to add Markdown to a Python program.

Getting Comfortable with Python

FizzBuzz

Graphing Thrust Available and Thrust Required

Graphing Dynamic Pressure During a Rocket Launch

Getting and Plotting Airfoil Coordinates

Modeling a 2-Body Orbit in 2D and 3D

Unit Conversions

Introduction to Web Scraping

Modeling Camera Shutter Effect

Writing Reports with Pweave

The End

Using Pweave

Markdown	Result
`# Text`	Heading 1 (like a title font)
`## Text`	Heading 2 (subtitle font)
`### Text`	Heading 3