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Introduction to Aerospace Flight Vehicles

January 2024 Release

This ebook provides a comprehensive introduction to aerospace engineering, covering various topics in an interactive and engaging format. It uses evidence-based teaching practices such as scaffolded learning to help students and other interested individuals understand and apply the material to multiple problems. The ebook includes detailed text and illustrations, worked examples, self-assessment quizzes, and opportunities for further discussion in and out of the classroom. Hyperlinks to additional resources are also provided for those who want to explore the topics further. The ebook concludes with many worked examples and application problems to reinforce the covered technical concepts.

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Introduction to Aerospace Flight Vehicles Copyright © 2022, 2023, 2024 by J. Gordon Leishman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 states that allowance is made for teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute.

ebook ISBN 979-8-9852614-0-0

This free, open-access educational resource is available to all students at universities, colleges, and schools and everyone interested in the content. It is distributed worldwide under a Creative Commons (CC), non-commercial, and non-derivative license. Individuals are free to use any of the content, including text and figures, in any other application, but please cite the source as “Introduction to Aerospace Flight Vehicles” or by citation to an individual chapter or figure. For questions, comments, suggestions, dialog, advice, teaching resources, etc., please contact the author via email at Leishman_ebook@erau.edu.

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Introduction to Aerospace Flight Vehicles Copyright © 2022, 2023, 2024 by J. Gordon Leishman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.