AstroVolley Courseware

Courseware to help teach students the basics of plotting and app building with MATLAB.

AstroVolley is free courseware authored by MathWorks® to help teach students the basics of plotting and app building with MATLAB®. During this course students will create their own astrodynamics game where navigators attempt to deliver payloads between star cruisers by volleying them through fantastical gravity fields.

Course Lesson Plan (~1 hour each)

Installing and Playing AstroVolley

Plotting

• Plotting Ships (Triangles)
• Plotting Gravitational Bodies (Circles)
• Gravity and Orbits
• Launching Volleys:
• Creating a Mission Map Function
• Plotting Velocity Vectors (quiver)
• Animating Trajectories (comet)

App Building (with App Designer)

• UIAxes, Properties, and Functions
• Sliders and Value Changing Callbacks
• Push Button Callbacks
• Generating Random Maps
• Keeping Score

Please see the AstroVolley Instructor Guide for more details. The Instructor Guide is included in the package or can be viewed on GitHub.