A couple of posts ago, we discussed the idea of Newton’s Third Law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.  Let’s figure out how to mathematically apply that to getting a rocket off the ground and investigating how airplanes fly! The main idea with thrust is that if you throw enough stuff […]

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Ballistic motion is an important concept in our path to understanding how rockets get up into orbit. Really, there are a few types of rockets: (1) rockets that just go up and then come right back down, otherwise known as ballistic missiles; (2) rockets that put something into orbit; and (3) rockets that take something […]

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