Model Rocket Motion
On this page, you'll find links to other sites that have technical information and equations describing the motion of model rockets.

Model Rocket Motion (Information Links)

http://www.howstuffworks.com/rocket.htm How rockets work (elementary level).

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/rocket/bgmr.html NASA Information - A beginner's guide to model rockets. Follow the educational link, and you'll find useful rocketry information like: Beginner's guide to propulsion, Forces of Flight, Aerodynamics, and how model rockets work.

http://www.rocketmime.com/rockets/rckt_eqn.html Equations of rocket motion
(high school level). Web site by Randy Culp.


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http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/subsubsection3_1_3_3.html Equations of Rocket motion (college level)

http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~gatlin/rocket/rocket.html University level - Equations of rocket motion, used in simulation programs.


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