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Title: Space Shuttle
Book
Description: This
book works best with 640x480 Screen resolution
(See below). Space Shuttle is a 12-page Interactive
Mathematics/Science WorkBook that celebrates the role of mathematics in
Rocket Science with multimedia and vivid animation.
It is designed to be used by students ages 14 and older for private self-directed
study and recreation. Students learn the 'Rocket Equation' that correlates
such factors as payload weight, fuel weight and type, fuel specific impuse,
and gravitational acceleration into the determination of a Rocket's performance.
The first half of the WorkBook consists of a series of experiments and
calculations designed to place the shuttle in orbit. The shuttle must
attain an eventual speed of 0.7*(orbital velocity) or roughly 4.5 km/sec.
at a height of about 226 Km above the surface of the Earth.
After a two-minute burn, the SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters) are discarded,
and the remaining climb to 7.75 Km/sec at 250 Km is done by hand using
the Shuttle engines. That is where the fun begins. Two interactive simulations
illustrate this task. The objective is to attain nearly circular orbit,
and that requires a balance of centripetal acceleration and gravity. The
first simulation guides the reader to balance these forces by displaying,
at each instant of flight, the desired velocity and attitude of the shuttle.
The next simulation is quite challenging. The player must "dock" with
a satellite that is in circular orbit. The simulations display in a realistic
way the difficulties in doing this by hand. But it is also quite entertaining,
and in the end, challenging to try.
Author: James White
Suggested Use: This book works best with 640x480 Screen resolution. If you prefer not to change your resolution, then open an empty Mathwright Library Player from its icon, and, before you open the book, select: Window, Default Screen resolution. Then open Book249/Shuttle.imt from the Mathwright menu. Teachers may choose to use this WorkBook as a resource to enrich mathematics and physics courses at the Secondary and College levels, to support group projects and laboratories, or to illustrate (with simulations) a number of key ideas in the development of Calculus and of Classical Mechanics.
Topics: acceleration, Rocket equations, differential equations, equations,extrema, mechanics, geometry,graphing, gravity, momentum, and Force.
Number of Pages: 12
Animation: Yes
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