Bibliograph

Make: rockets, down-to-earth rocket science, Mike Westerfield

Type

Label

Make: rockets, down-to-earth rocket science, Mike Westerfield

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Make: rockets

Oclc number

890161948

Responsibility statement

Mike Westerfield

Series statement

Make

Sub title

down-to-earth rocket science

Summary

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

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

resource.variantTitle

Rockets

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