Ballistics, 2nd Edition

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Preface to the First Edition

This book is an outgrowth of a graduate course taught by the authors for the Stevens

Institute of Technology at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. Engineers and scientists

at the arsenal have long felt the need for an armature of the basic physics, chemistry, elec-

tronics, and practice on which to esh out their design tasks as they go about fullling

the needs and requirements of the military services for armaments. The Stevens Institute

has had a close association with the arsenal for several decades, providing graduate pro-

grams and advanced degrees to many of the engineers and scientists employed there. ...