Make: rockets down-to-earth rocket science
Starting with the basics of rocket propulsion, readers will start out making rockets made from stuff lying around the house, and then move on up to air-, water-, and solid propellant-powered rockets.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sebastopol, CA :
Maker Media,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Make (Sebastopol, Calif.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Let's fly some rockets!
- Model rocketry today
- Juno: A solid propellant rocket
- Launch pads
- Flight operations
- Compressed air rockets
- Rocket stability
- How high did it go?
- Payloads
- Selecting parachutes and streamers
- Water rockets
- Parachute recovery of a water rocket
- Subsonic aerodynamics
- How high will it go?
- Minimum-diameter rockets
- Mini-rockets
- Multistage rockets
- Cluster rockets
- Helicopter recovery
- Rocket and boost gliders
- Air rocket glider
- Rocket clubs and contests
- Onward and upward.
