Exterior Ballistics with Applications: Skydiving, Parachute Fall, Flying Fragments

Exterior Ballistics with Applications - Skydiving, Parachute Fall, Flying Fragments presents a modern approach to introduce the basics of exterior ballistics and its methods from the simple ideal model of projectile motion to the automatic solution of the differential equations of projectile flight using PC programs.
The book uses different approaches to solve the differential equations of projectile motion - among them the Siacci method and the numerical methods.
The results obtained through the integration of differential equations of projectile flight are mostly analytical formulas that describe the projectile trajectory and make the exterior ballistics a comprehensible science.
The Differential Equations of Projectile Flight are also integrated numerically using some original PC programs that can be easily modified to be used in similar scenarios or other new ones and give the reader the possibility to solve a great variety of Exterior Ballistics problem.

Exterior Ballistics with Applications can be considered as an interdisciplinary applied mathematics and physics manuscript for the vast mathematics and physics models and techniques employed. It is a great source for applications in physics, calculus, differential equations, numerical methods, and PC programming as well.
The book is illustrated with about 140 solved examples related to different artillery and infantry firearms that demonstrate the use of formulas and the solution methods of ballistics to find the elements of projectile trajectories.

Exterior Ballistics with Applications includes as well two interesting topics that can be considered as applications of exterior ballistics:
1. Skydiving and parachute falling related with the trajectory of a parachutist launched from a horizontally flying airplane with un-deployed parachute, in different meteorological conditions, and in pr

About the Author Gjergj Klimi received his B.A. and Ph. D. in Physics from University of Tirana in Albania. He is currently adjunct assistant professor of Mathematics at Pace University (New York) and at City Tech College (Brooklyn). His research interests include the application of Physics, Mathematics, and Probability in military field, and particularly in Exterior and Terminal Ballistics where he had written numerous papers and a book about the applications of probability in anti-aircraft shooting. From 1970 till 1993 he had been a professor of Physics & Mathematics at the Military Academy of Tirana. In 80's he served as Physics Chair at the Military Academy of Tirana, and was an adjunct professor at the Military Academy of General Staff in Tirana. He taught Physics, Calculus, Probability applied in anti-aircraft firing and Applications of the Physics in conventional and nuclear explosions. In 90's he used to work at the Committee of Science and Technology, and at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in Albania as Director of Tempus Office, responsible for the implementation of the European Community Programs to restructure the Higher Education in Albania.