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An authoritative new book by Art Pejsa, pioneer Honeywell aerospace physicist, US Naval Academy math prof and NRA rifle expert. Covers a wide range of informative topics including the basic fundamentals of physics, with a large glossary, and extensive ballistics tables.
A decade of original research by Pejsa has produced a set of new, simple but exact formulas and a method for do-it-yourself ballistics. Easy examples show how to calculate any of the data. A great text for an elementary course in exterior ballistics.
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Treats most of the classical topics of ballistics. Mainly, however, it is a tutorial on a new, simplified method for accurate exterior ballistics computations. Using the author's new easy but virtually exact formulas, persons with high school math skills can calculate data more accurately than most published tables. It is the culmination of a decade of successful original research aimed at bringing ballistics analysis from the exclusive domain of a few experts. Extensive tables are included in the Appendix.
About the Author:
It is an ideal text for a one-semester elementary course in ballistics. A more in-depth course which would include derivation of the formulas, given in the Appendix, would require calculus.
Arthur Pejsa has been a pioneer aerospace scientist for over twenty five years. At AC Electronics Division of GMC, he headed the system design and analysis group for the Thor Missile, the world's first successful long range inertial guidance system. He had a similar role for the Titan II ICBM.
At Honeywell, he analyzed control systems for manned vehicles such as Apollo. He led guidance system development and personally designed the difficult reentry guidance for the Space Shuttle. Later he headed software development for Honeywell's new, widely used, inertial navigation system for long range aircraft.
Before his aerospace career he was, for eight years, Assistant Professor of mathematics and mechanics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. More recently he was Visiting Professor of physics, mathematics and computer science at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Prof. Pejsa is an avid marksman and is qualified as an Outdoor Rifle Expert.
During World War II, as a young B-29 Superfortress combat pilot over Asia and Japan, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals.
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- PublisherKenwood Pub
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0962127760
- ISBN 13 9780962127762
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
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