| View Larger Image | Rocket Propulsion Elements | Hardcoverby George P. Sutton (Author), Oscar Biblarz (Author)
| List Price: | $130.00 | | Price: | $104.00 | | You Save: | $26.00 (20%) | | | Available: | Not yet published |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Edition: | 8th Edition | | Page Count: | 784 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 30, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 854,639th |
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Product Description
Science/Astrophysics & Space Science The definitive text on rocket propulsion—now revised to reflectadvancements in the field For sixty years, Sutton's Rocket Propulsion Elements has been regarded as the single most authoritative sourcebook on rocket propulsion technology. As with the previous edition, coauthored with Oscar Biblarz, the Eighth Edition of Rocket Propulsion Elements offers a thorough introduction to basic principles of rocket propulsion for guided missiles, space flight, or satellite flight. It describes the physical mechanisms and designs for various types of rockets' and provides an understanding of how rocket propulsion is applied to flying vehicles. Updated and strengthened throughout, the Eighth Edition explores: The fundamentals of rocket propulsion, its essential technologies, and its key design rationale The various types of rocket propulsion systems, physical phenomena, and essential relationships The latest advances in the field such as changes in materials, systems design, propellants, applications, and manufacturing technologies, with a separate new chapter devoted to turbopumps Liquid propellant rocket engines and solid propellant rocket motors, the two most prevalent of the rocket propulsion systems, with in-depth consideration of advances in hybrid rockets and electrical space propulsion Comprehensive and coherently organized, this seminal text guides readers evenhandedly through the complex factors that shape rocket propulsion, with both theory and practical design considerations. Professional engineers in the aerospace and defense industries as well as students in mechanical and aerospace engineering will find this updated classic indispensable for its scope of coverage and utility. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 22 reviews)
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Book review by Omar Marwan Awartani  4 Stars
September 24, 2009
The product was what i asked for, so that is pleasing. The transaction was safe and reliable. Thank you
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Lost in the translation by Troy A. McLain (Oklahoma City, OK)  1 Stars
April 09, 2009
This review is specifically for the kindle version. This is currently my textbook for my Master's course, so I was initially delighted that the book was offered in kindle format. My gripe is not even that some of the illustrations and tables are extremely difficult if not impossible to read - that I expected. However, the kindle edition has a high amount of typos that are not present in the print versions of the book. The worst cases are the homework problems at the end of each section, where the kindle version has incorrect values or required information is simply missing. Sometimes equations are missing vital pieces, like square root symbols and exponents. I only know this because I'm taking the class with a friend who bought the print version of the book. If I went purely off of the kindle text, I'd be failing this class! Also, since all the tables and equations are input as images, the benefit of the kindle search function is useless. The book is not designed for linear reading, and the extremely long lag in searching, highlighting, and moving back and forth between different sections is very frustrating. Finally, the price for this kindle book is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. For the terrible quality of the conversion, they charge just $10 less than a brand-new, hardcover version. You can get a used copy for at least $15 cheaper than this bordering-in-useless copy. Bottom-line: go with the print version.
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Rocket Propulsion Elements by Daniel Hastings (Minnesota)  5 Stars
August 25, 2008
I'm only sixteen years old, and still only in algebra 2, but I bought this book because I am extremely fascinated with rocketry and I want to learn more about it. This will be a text that will be with me throughout my college years and beyond, and I feel that it was a great investment. The math and chemistry are a little intimidating thus far, but then again, where do they get the phrase, "It's not rocket science!"? I realize it's a little ambitious for me, but if I systematically go through it I'm that much closer to experimental rocketry/spacecraft.
The book is thoughtfully laid out, and exhaustively covers pretty much every area of rocket propulsion. I would recommend this book to any aspiring rocket scientist!
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A model for lucid scientific/engineering writing by Scott C. Locklin (Berkeley CA) 5 Stars
July 02, 2008
I picked up this book in a used bookstore on a lark, tossed it on my "in" pile of books, and there it languished for a year or so. When I finally picked it up as a cure for insomnia, I managed to make my way through 2/3 of the thing before finally falling asleep. This book is marvelous. I had no idea what was involved in real rocket science, but quite a bit. Vibration physics, thermodynamics, chemistry, injectors, turbopumps... The book would make a wonderful practical course for, say, a senior physics student, to test his knowledge of different fields. I was also struck by the elegant simplicity of the models which were actually used to design the rockets we use today. This is no cookbook of differential equations for finite element analysis and doing what the idiot box says; this hearkens back to when engineers used slide rules, and designed things they really understood. The elegant results for nozzle shape, driven by thermodynamics (I had no idea why rockets had big nozzles like they do), and flame length estimators of rocket thrust alone were worth the price of the book.
I had no idea it is still used as a textbook for rocketry (I have the second edition from 1956), but it doesn't surprise me terribly. The lucidity of the writing and derivations made this almost inevitable. I'm sure there are more practical books in Russian, but there aren't in English, so this one will remain a classic until Americans begin to do real rocket science again.
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Another reason why the Russians are ahead by Nuclear Grad Student (Urbana, IL) 1 Stars
January 13, 2008
I was fortunate enough to have a rocket propulsion internship at the Moscow Aviation Institute when I was an undergrad. As I hadn't taken a full-fledged rocket propulsion I bought this book for the trip. After arriving I proudly showed this great tome to my researchers to which they scanned it and replied, "This book is great if you would like to look at pictures and read vague stories about general rocketry, but it doesn't explain at all how to engineer or build anything, so it is worthless." I passed this off as hubris until they gave me a couple of the old Soviet books on rocket engineering full of detailed performance characteristics and equations which were horribly lacking in Sutton. Even with my nonexistent Russian they were more useful than "the tome." Unfortunately I wasn't able to bring their engineering books back with me, but trust me, I was ashamed I had brought Sutton. I ended up not even using it as a door stop. I can hope future versions will get technical but don't count on it. If it hasn't managed to do it in 50 years since it was first published, it probably won't happen.
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