Make rockets : down-to-earth rocket science
This book teaches the reader to build rockets--powered by compressed air, water, and solid propellant--with the maximum possible fun, safety, and educational experience. Make: Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol, California :
Maker Media
2014.
2014. |
| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629497406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
