Author: C. P. Hoult

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Published: 1959

Total Pages: 38

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The gross motion of a ballistic rocket following a zero-lift trajectory during both powered flight and re-entry is discussed with special reference to the importance of the appropriate dimensionless parameters. Approximate solutions are found for the tip-over maneuver, low- and high-altitude powered flight, and re-entry. Of the greatest significance to the rocket dynamicist is that all the above solutions are related to confluent hypergeometric functions with have been used to describe short-period motion in the literature.