Name: aerospace engineering on the back of an envelope (in English)
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Author: irwin e. alber
ISBN: 9783642225369

portada aerospace engineering on the back of an envelope (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

irwin e. alber

Collection

springer praxis books

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

326

ISBN

3642225365

ISBN13

9783642225369

Synopsis "aerospace engineering on the back of an envelope (in English)"

engineers need to acquire “back-of-the-envelope” survival skills to obtain rough quantitative answers to real-world problems, particularly when working on projects with enormous complexity and very limited resources. in the case studies treated in this book, we show step-by-step examples of the physical arguments and the resulting calculations obtained using the quick-fire method. we also demonstrate the estimation improvements that can be obtained through the use of more detailed physics-based back-of-the-envelope engineering models. these different methods are used to obtain the solutions to a number of design and performance estimation problems arising from two of the most complex real-world engineering projects: the space shuttle and the hubble space telescope satellite.