# Postgraduate study

**Source**: https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/aerospace-engineering/?card=course&code=ENG5013
**Parent**: https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/aerospace-engineering/

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# Aerospace Engineering MSc

## Flight Dynamics M ENG5013

- **Academic Session:** 2025-26
- **School:** School of Engineering
- **Credits:** 10
- **Level:** Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- **Typically Offered:** Semester 1
- **Available to Visiting Students:** Yes
- **Collaborative Online International Learning:** No
- **Curriculum For Life:** No

### Short Description

This course will impart an in-depth knowledge of aspects of flight dynamics.

### Timetable

TBD

### Excluded Courses

None

### Co-requisites

None

### Assessment

80% Examination

20% Coursework

**Main Assessment In:** December

### Course Aims

The aims of this course are to:

■ impart an in-depth knowledge of aspects of flight dynamics;

■ enable students to analyse the dynamic characteristics of aircraft.

### Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ formulate a simple nonlinear simulation of a fixed wing aircraft from basic aircraft properties,

■ linearise the non-linear equations of motion, and express them in state space form,

■ appreciate the physical and mathematical significance of aerodynamic derivatives,

■ appreciate the natural modes of motion of a fixed wing aircraft,

■ analyse the dynamic stability of aircraft based on a state space representation of its equations of motion,

■ derive transfer functions from the state space representation and hence calculate the response of fixed wing aircraft to control inputs.

### Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.

Students should attend at least 75% of the timetabled classes of the course.

Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation/submission rates.  Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a MyCampus absence report.

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- [Programme overview](https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/aerospace-engineering/)
- [ENG5013 reading list](https://glasgow.rl.talis.com/courses/eng5013.html)