Rockets

• Main Author: Goddard, Robert Hutchings, 1882-1945 (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2002.
• Series: Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering.
• Subjects: Rocketry.; Rockets (Aeronautics); Upper atmosphere > Rocket observations.; Liquid propellant rockets.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780486174341; 0486174344; 0486425371; 9780486425375
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Rockets, in the primitive form of fireworks, have existed since the Chinese invented them around the thirteenth century. But it was the work of American Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) and his development of liquid-fueled rockets that first produced a controlled rocket flight. Fascinated by roc...

Table of Contents:

• Title Page; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; A METHOD OF REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES; PREFACE; A METHOD OF REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES; A METHOD OF REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES; PART I. THEORY; METHOD TO BE EMPLOYED; STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM; REDUCTION OF EQUATION TO THE SIMPLEST FORM; RIGOROUS SOLUTION FOR MINIMUM M AT PRESENT IMPOSSIBLE; SOLUTION OF THE MINIMUM PROBLEM BY AN APPROXIMATE METHOD; PART II. EXPERIMENTS; EFFICIENCY OF ORDINARY ROCKET; EXPERIMENTS IN AIR WITH SMALL STEEL CHAMBERS; EXPERIMENTS WITH LARGE CHAMBER; EXPERIMENTS IN VACUO; DISCUSSION OF RESULTS.
• Discussion of possible explanationsconclusions from experiments; significance of the above experiments as regards constructing a practical apparatus; part iii. calculations based on theory and experiment; application of approximate method; values of the quantities occurring in the equations; division of the altitude into intervals; calculation of minimum mass for each interval; explanation of tables v and vi; calculation of minimum mass to raise one pound to various altitudes in the atmosphere; check on approximate method of calculation; recovery of apparatus on return.
• Applications to daily observationscalculation of minimum mass required to raise one pound to an "infinite" altitude; summary; conclusion; appendix a
• theory of the motion with direct lift; appendix b
• theory of the displacements for simple harmonic motion; appendix c
• theory of direct-lift impulse-meter; appendix d
• theory of spring impulse-meter; appendix e
• check on approximate method of calculation, for small charges fired in rapid succession; appendix f
• proof that the retardation between 500,000 ft. and 1,000,000 ft. is negligible; appendix g
• probability of collision with meteors.
• NOTESLIQUID-PROPELLANT ROCKET DEVELOPMENT; LIQUID-PROPELLANT ROCKET DEVELOPMENT; INTRODUCTION; THE ESTABLISHMENT IN NEW MEXICO; STATIC TESTS OF 1930-32; FLIGHTS DURING THE PERIOD 1930-32; RESUMPTION OF FLIGHTS IN NEW MEXICO; DEVELOPMENT OF STABILIZED FLIGHT; PENDULUM STABILIZER; GYROSCOPE STABILIZER; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; CONCLUSION; A Biographical Note and Appreciation.