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Proemium
Foreward by Dr. Mark J. Lewis
Preface to the 2025 Edition
Preface to the 2024 Edition
Attention! AE201 Students at ERAU
Acknowledgements
About the Author
1. What is Aerospace Engineering?
2. History of Aircraft & Aviation
3. History of Rockets & Space Flight
4. Mathematics for Engineering
5. Units & Conversion Factors
6. Professional Responsibilities, Ethics, & Copyright
7. Aircraft Classifications & Regulations
8. Anatomy of Aircraft & Spacecraft
9. Aerospace Structures
10. Aerospace Materials
11. Fundamental Properties of Fluids
12. Fluid Statics & the Hydrostatic Equation
13. Atmospheric Properties & the ISA
14. Types of Fluid Flows
15. Dimensional Analysis
16. Mach Number & Reynolds Number
17. Dynamic Similarity
18. Problem Solving & Modeling
19. Equations of Fluid Motion
20. Continuity Equation
21. Momentum Equation
22. Energy Equation & Bernoulli’s Equation
23. Applications of the Conservation Laws
24. Boundary Layer Flows
25. Turbulent Flows
26. Bluff Body Flows
27. Internal Flows
28. Time-Dependent Flows
29. Viscous-Dominated Flows
30. Airfoil Shapes
31. Aerodynamics of Airfoil Sections
32. Wing Shapes & Nomenclature
33. Aerodynamics of Finite Wings
34. Potential Flows
35. Thin Airfoil Theory
36. Lifting Line Theory
37. Airplane Equations of Motion
38. Fundamentals of Propulsion Systems
