Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering

✍ Scribed by Taylor, Travis S

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What Are Rockets? The History of RocketsRockets of the Modern EraRocket Anatomy and NomenclatureWhy Are Rockets Needed? Missions and PayloadsTrajectoriesOrbitsOrbit Changes and ManeuversBallistic Missile TrajectoriesHow Do Rockets Work? ThrustSpecific ImpulseWeight Flow RateTsiolkovsky's Rocket EquationStagingRocket Dynamics, Guidance, and ControlHow Do Rocket Engines Work? The Basic Rocket EngineThermodynamic Expansion and the Rocket NozzleExit VelocityRocket Engine Area Ratio and LengthsRocket Engine Design ExampleAre All Rockets the Same? Solid Rocket EnginesLiquid Propellant Rocket Engines. Read more...

Abstract: What Are Rockets? The History of RocketsRockets of the Modern EraRocket Anatomy and NomenclatureWhy Are Rockets Needed? Missions and PayloadsTrajectoriesOrbitsOrbit Changes and ManeuversBallistic Missile TrajectoriesHow Do Rockets Work? ThrustSpecific ImpulseWeight Flow RateTsiolkovsky's Rocket EquationStagingRocket Dynamics, Guidance, and ControlHow Do Rocket Engines Work? The Basic Rocket EngineThermodynamic Expansion and the Rocket NozzleExit VelocityRocket Engine Area Ratio and LengthsRocket Engine Design ExampleAre All Rockets the Same? Solid Rocket EnginesLiquid Propellant Rocket Engines

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front cover
Dedication
Contents
About the Author
Preface
Chapter 1. What Are Rockets?
Chapter 2. Why Are Rockets Needed?
Chapter 3. How Do Rockets Work?
Chapter 4. How Do Rocket Engines Work?
Chapter 5. Are All Rockets the Same?
Chapter 6. How Do We Test Rockets?
Chapter 7. Are We Thinking Like Rocket Scientists and Engineers?
Back cover

✦ Subjects

Транспорт;Аэрокосмическая техника;Ракетные двигатели и энергетические установки;