FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS AND MAXIMUM RANGE

Abstract

The current interest in rockets and space travel has aroused a corresponding interest in the determination of maximum range, minimum time, and so on, for various types of trajectories. A variety of questions of this type have been treated by means of the theory of dynamic programming. Here it is shown how to use functional equations to determine the range, the maximum elevation, and similar quantities, as functions of initial position and velocities. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 24, 1958
Accession Number
AD0607027

Entities

People

  • Richard E. Bellman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Elevation
  • Equations
  • Mathematics
  • Trajectories

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Geodesy
  • Operations Research

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris