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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History of Rocketry | |
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| Rocket Science | |
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| Making black powder | |
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| Demonstrating different rates of reaction with a film can rocket | |
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| How does the quantity of propellant affect the distance travelled? | |
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| Real rockets! Build your own hydrogen-fuelled rocket | |
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| The Model Rocketeer's Workshop | |
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| Build a model rocket support jig and stand | |
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| Build a wind tunnel | |
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| Flow visualization techniques | |
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| Model Rocket Stability | |
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| Constructing Model Rockets | |
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| Building your first model rocket | |
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| Building a series-staged rocket | |
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| Build your own parallel-staged model | |
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| Build your own boost-glider | |
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| Build your own UFO (I) | |
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| Build your own UFO (II) | |
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| Build your own UFO (III) | |
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| Build your own payload-carrying rocket | |
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| Recovery Systems | |
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| Build a night-tracer rocket | |
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| Build your own EL inverter | |
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| Creating a strobe beacon rocket | |
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| Launching Model Rockets | |
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| Simple launch controller | |
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| Advanced launch controller | |
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| Arming your rocket motor for launch | |
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| Build a "rod" launcher | |
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| Build a "gantry" launcher | |
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| Build a "rail" launcher | |
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| Launching your first model rocket | |
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| More advanced launch techniques | |
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| Rocket Math | |
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| How fast? How far? - Getting to grips with basic math for physics | |
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| Calculating how high your rocket went | |
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| A simple tracker | |
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| Calculating how high your rocket went from an aerial photograph | |
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| Calculating the size of an object on the ground | |
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| Calcualting the measurements for a boat-tail transition | |
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| Calculating how stable your rocket is | |
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| Recovery device calculation | |
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| Model Rocket Photography | |
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| Build a model rocket camera pay load | |
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| Model Rocket Movie Cameras | |
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| Build a model rocket video camera pay load (I) | |
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| Build a model rocket video camera pay load (II) | |
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| Rocket Mail | |
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| Rocket mail | |
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| Introduction to the Flight Computer | |
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| Timer | |
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| Magnetic apogee sensor | |
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| Barometric altimeter | |
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| Temperature and humidity | |
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| Acceleration | |
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| Vibration (2-axis accelerometer) | |
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| Optical sensor (to detect roll rate) | |
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| Exhaust temperature (thermocouple) | |
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| Full data acquisition system | |
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| Educating with Model Rocketry | |
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| Educating with model rocketry | |
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| Model Rocket Clubs | |
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| Starting a model rocketry club | |
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| Space exploration merit badge | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Model Rocket Safety | |
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| International Listing of Model Rocket Clubs | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |