Book description
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 rockets lift off, and want to fly their own model rockets. 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. Most of the rockets in the book can be built from parts in the Estes Designer Special kit.
Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Let’s Fly Some Rockets!
- 2. Model Rocketry Today
- 3. Juno: A Solid Propellant Rocket
- 4. Launch Pads
- 5. Flight Operations
- 6. Compressed Air Rockets
- 7. Rocket Stability
- 8. How High Did It Go?
- 9. Payloads
- 10. Selecting Parachutes and Streamers
- 11. Water Rockets
- 12. Parachute Recovery of a Water Rocket
- 13. Subsonic Aerodynamics
- 14. How High Will It Go?
- 15. Minimum-Diameter Rockets
- 16. Mini Rockets
- 17. Multistage Rockets
- 18. Cluster Rockets
- 19. Helicopter Recovery
- 20. Rocket and Boost Gliders
- 21. Air Rocket Glider
- 22. Rocket Clubs and Contests
- 23. Onward and Upward
- A. Programs from the Book
- B. Places to Buy Stuff or Find Information
- C. The Projects in This Book
- D. The NAR Model Rocket Safety Code
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Make: Rockets
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2014
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781457182921
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