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Make – Rockets
Mike Westerfield
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Description for Make – Rockets
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 520 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: TGBN; TTD. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 248 x 206 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1192.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
O´Reilly Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Sebastopol, United States
ISBN
9781457182921
SKU
V9781457182921
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Mike Westerfield
Mike sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer, then used it to write ORCA/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer's Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS. Since then Mike has developed numerous compilers and interpreters, software for mission-critical physics packages for military satellites, plasma ... Read more
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