"The Rocket Motor"
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by Maurice J. Zucrow, Ph.D.

The Rocket Motor
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by Maurice J. Zucrow, Ph.D.

If you design, build, test, or use serious rocket engines, you need this new reference handbook.  A perfect companion to Sutton's "Rocket Propulsion Elements," providing a handy and useful compilation of key theory and data on virtually all types of rocket propulsion systems. 

Originally published as part of the classic Principles of Jet Propulsion engineering text by Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, Professor of Jet Propulsion, Purdue University.  It's accurate, comprehensive, complete, and authoritative. 

This is a highly-detailed rocket science book, containing a wealth of material on rocket nozzle theory and design, gas velocities, thermodynamics, thrust and thrust coefficient, exhaust velocity, specific impulse, characteristic velocity, cooling, propulsion efficiency, vertical flight, propellants, and JATO design.  Includes numerous examples for calculations of every aspect of motor performance.

Dr. Zucrow, an extraordinary propulsion theorist and rocket engineer, was a colleague of Dr. Theodore Von Kármán, Martin Summerfield, and Frank Malina.  He did much pioneering work at Aerojet Engineering Company, and later became Professor of  Jet Propulsion in the eminent Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering at Purdue.  The Zucrow Laboratories at Purdue University is today one of the leading facilities for the study of propulsion, missiles, and space vehicles.

This is a comprehensive rocket propulsion reference book.  If you’re serious about learning both theory and practical engineering information—for both solid and liquid propellant rockets—The Rocket Motor offers a complete education. 

The text discusses estimating and predicting rocket engine performance from theoretical data.  Explanations include deriving throat area, chamber pressure, mixture ratio and flow rate.  Then thermochemical calculations are explained, covering characteristic velocity at various pressures; combustion gas velocity for various nozzle ratios; and various nozzle pressure ratios.  All essential algebraic formulae and equations are included, working with a variety of fuel-oxidizer combinations. 

Long out-of-print, this new limited edition of Zucrow’s rare text has been digitally restored and republished by the Rocket Science Institute.   72 pages, including 35 drawings, tables, charts, and graphs, plus unusual references for further studies.  Size is 8.5 by 5.5-inches. 

Here's your chance to have an exceptional rocket science textbook at an affordable price.  Printed with a high-resolution laser printer (not photocopied) on high-quality, bright-white, acid-free paper, and quality bound for years of reference use.  Zucrow will become a valuable part of your library.  ISBN 1-878628-15-1     $19.95

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