Concept of similarity and design of experiments – Measurement uncertainty – Design of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, and high enthalpy test facilities – Transducers and their response characteristics – Measurement of pressure, temperature, velocity, forces, moments, and dynamic sta- bility derivatives – Flow visualization techniques: Optical measurement techniques, refractive index based measurements, scattering based measurements – Data acquisition and signal conditioning – Signal and image processing.

Basic Experiments in Low Speed Wind Tunnels – Measurement of Aerodynamic Forces and Moments – Measurements of Pressure and Velocity – Flow Visualisation Techniques – Transient Flows: Shock Waves, Detonation – Experiments in Supersonic Flows – Optical Flow Visualisation Methods – Measurement of Flow Generated Sound.

Study of Pull Up - Pull Down Maneuver – Flight Simulator – Flight Controls of a Helicopter – Propeller Performance Testing – Measurement of Performance Parameters in Flight.

Dynamics of Particles: reference frames and rotations, energy, angular momentum – Two Body Motion: equations of motion, Kepler laws, solution to two-body problem, conics and relations, vis- viva equation, Kepler equation, orbital elements – orbit determination: Lambert problem, satellite tracking, different methods of solution to Lambert problem – Non-Keplerian Motion: perturbing acceleration-earth aspherical potential, oblateness, third body effects, atmospheric drag effects, ap- plication of perturbations – Orbit Maneuvers: Hohmann transfer, inclination change maneuvers, combined maneuver