Rocket Propulsion I Course Outline Handouts General Information Rocket Propulsion Terminology Inversion of the Stodola Relation for the Supersonic Case Lecture Notes Solid Propellant Rocket Motors (Powerpoint Presentation) Contributors Kazimierz Siemienowicz (c.1600-c.1651) William Congreve (1772-1828) Gustaf de Laval (1845-1913) Nikolai Kibalchich (1850-1881) Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) (see 1, see also Rocket Equation) Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963) (see 1, 2) Robert Goddard (1882-1945) (see also) G. I. Taylor (1886-1975) (see also Taylor Cone) Friedrich Zander (1887-1933) (see also GRID) Rudolf Nebel (1894-1978) Herman Oberth (1894-1989) (see 1, 2, 3) Max Valier (1895-1930) (see also) Yuri Kondratyuk (1897-1942) Fritz von Opel (1899-1971) (see RAK1, Ente) Friedrich Snader (?-1938) Karel Bossart (1904-1975) Sergei Korolev (1907-1966) Klaus Riedel (1907-1944) Alelsei Mihailovich Isaev (1908-1971) Valentin Glushko (1908-1989) Loius Dunn (1908-1979) Luigi Crocco (1909-1986) Leonid Dushkin (1910-1990) Walter Thiel (1910-1943) William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004) Tsien Hsue-shen (1911-?) Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) (see also) Frank Malina (1912-1981) Vladimir Chelomei (1914-1984) Jack Parsons (1914-1952) Helmut Göttrup (1916-1981) (see also Gorodomlya Island 1, 2) Jim Chamberlin (1915-1981) Vasily Mishin (1917-2001) Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (1919-1971) Maxime A. Faget (1921-2004) Alan Shepard (1923-1998) Victor Makeev (1924-1985) (see also Makeyev OKB) Virgil "Gus" Grissom (1926-1967) Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) Neil Armstrong (1930-present) APJ Abdul Kalam (1931-present) Von Karman's approach to research--as described by Bill Sears Robert Geisler F. E. C. Culick (see 1, 2) William A. Sirignano Charles Mitchell Terms and Definitions Tsiolkovsky's Rocket Equation Thrust Momentum Specific Impulse Mass Fraction Mass Ratio Nozzle De Laval Nozzle Choked Flow Mass Flow Rate Plug Nozzle Expanding Nozzle Aerospike Engine Regenerative Cooling Turbopump Rocket Engine Chemical Reaction Solid Fuel Rocket Solid Rocket Booster Liquid Rocket Hybrid Rocket Monopropellant Rocket Monopropellant Hydrazine Hydrogen Peroxide Hight-test Peroxide (HTP) Bipropellant Rocket Oxidizer Redox Oxygen Oxidation Number Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Liquid Hydrogen Rocket Fuel Alcohol Kerosene RP-1 Hypergolic Nitrogen Tetroxide (Dinitrogen Tetroxide) UDMH Monomethylhydrazine (MMH) Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) Aerozine 50 Red Fuming Nitric Acid (RFNA and IRFNA) UH 25 Tripropellant Rocket Explosive Bolt (Pyrotechnic Fastener) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Geostationary Orbit (GEO) Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) Staging Rocketry Single Stage to Orbit Two Stage to Orbit Three Stage to Orbit Atmospheric Re-entry Hohmann Transfer Orbit Apsis Papers My Memoirs of Solid Propellant Development at the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Eaton Canyon: A History of Rocket Motor Research and Development in the CalTech-NDRC-Navy Rocket Program, 1941-1946 Launch Vehicle Historical Reliability Large Space Solid Rocket Motors in Europe - Past and Future Developments More Information Some References Rocketry Rocket Propulsion Elements How to Design, Build, and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines Easy PVC Rockets Chemistry and Propellants Advances in Chemical Propulsion: Science to Technology Propellants and Explosives: Thermochemical Aspects of Combustion Shockwaves and Explosions Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics Space Encyclopedia of Space and Technology Assignments <access limited> Problem numbering in the 6th and 7th Eds. of Sutton's text Problem Set 1 <solution> Problem Set 2 <solution> Problem Set 3 <solution> Problem Set 4 <solution> Problem Set 5 <solution> Problem Set 6 <solution> Problem Set 7 <solution> Problem Set 8 <solution>
