Features Well-constructed examples help build students problem-solving skills and confidence Spreadsheets have been integrated as a tool of analysis, focusing on Excel and the authors own tool called EzCash. A wide range of chapter openers, examples, homework problems, and case studies drawn from all Engineering disciplines. New Features End of chapter questions have been reformatted Most of the chapters will have Engineering-in-Training questions for future review A cleaner and more open design A second color has been added CASH software desciptions have been deleted. New EzCash software for Windows will be available via the Web. The Park Web site will be maintained by the author and will offer updated tax laws as well as the latest links to Internet sites for additional The Authors Support Page for the Book Supplements: Solutions Manual (available on through your Sales Specialist).
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.