| Title: | Rocket Science |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-11 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | Rocket Science In this course, we will explore rocketry: mathematics and science, history, ethics, and politics. We will study the work and impact of important figures in the history, including early conceptual work by Tsiolkovsky and Moore, to initial rocket development by Goddard and von Braun, to the height of the Soviet and American space program under Korolev and von Braun. We'll study less visible "hidden figures" of the American program, specifically the largely female computational staff with NASA who pushed the boundaries of mathematics and physics while being simultaneously oppressed in the Jim Crow south. We'll discuss ethical questions, such as how to interpret the legacy of von Braun given that much of his early work was part of the Nazi war machine. We'll also build and launch our own rockets, analyze their flights, and conduct virtual space missions in the hit indie game Kerbal Space Program. If you've ever been curious about ?v, Hohmann transfers, the Oberth effect, orbital resonance, aerobraking, lithobraking, Molniya orbits, specific impulse, Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation, Kepler's laws, or trying to determine just how much money humanity has spent rescuing Matt Damon.then this is the course for you! |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 25, 2021 |
| End Date: | December 18, 2021 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/26/2021-12/16/2021 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Lilly Library, Room LCL
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| Faculty: | McKinney, Colin |
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