Craig Hunter Robinson

Rockets and Raindrops Craig Hunter Robinson

If you want to discover the equations of motion of rockets, raindrops, shooting stars and even steam engines, then this is the book for you. Starting with the theory of varying mass problems, this book illustrates with worked examples, and there is also a bank of questions for the reader to work through themselves. The beauty of Mathematics is that so much can be discovered using just 'pen, paper and brain' and this area of study exemplifies that beauty. With just a knowledge of some basic Calculus and Newton's Second Law of Motion, and its derivatives, the reader truly can see that which once lay hid."Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."Alexander Pop