Python for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Finishing the Airfoil Plotter

Learn how to detect and handle errors when retrieving airfoil data from the UIUC database using Python. Understand how to implement exception handling to manage missing or incorrect airfoil requests, ensuring your airfoil plotter works reliably even with invalid inputs.

We'll cover the following...

1.Getting Comfortable with Python

2.FizzBuzz

3.Graphing Thrust Available and Thrust Required

4.Graphing Dynamic Pressure During a Rocket Launch

5.Getting and Plotting Airfoil Coordinates

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

7.Unit Conversions

8.Introduction to Web Scraping

9.Modeling Camera Shutter Effect

10.Writing Reports with Pweave

11.The End

Finishing the Airfoil Plotter