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SUTTON  \nAcknowledged expert on rocket propulsion  \nFormerly Executive Director of Engineering at Rocketdyne (now Aerojet Rocketdyne)  \nFormerly Laboratory Associate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  \nOSCAR BIBLARZ  \nProfessor Emeritus  \nDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Naval Postgraduate School  \nCopyright © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 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For more information about Wiley)products, [visit www.wiley.com](visit www.wiley.com).  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is Available  \nISBN 9781118753651 (Hardcover)  \nISBN 9781118753880 (ePDF)  \nISBN 9781118753910 (ePub)  \nCover design: Wiley  \nCover image: SpaceX  \nThis is a photograph of the rocket propulsion system at the aft end of the recoverable booster stage of the Falcon 9 Space Launch Vehicle. This propulsion system has nine Merlin liquid propellant rocket engines, but only eight of these can be seen in this view. The total take-off thrust at sea level is approximately 1.3 million pounds of thrust force and at orbit altitude (in a vacuum) it is about 1.5 million pounds of thrust. Propellants are liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene. More information about this multiple rocket engine propulsion system can be found in Chapter 11 Section 2 and more information about RP-1 kerosene can be found in Chapter 7 . The Falcon space vehicle and the Merlin rocket engines are designed, developed, manufactured, and operated by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, of Hawthorne, California.  \nThis book is pri","cbCaieeqx63e4WW5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieeqx63e4WW5","pdf",7498697,792,"English","# Preface\n# 1 Classification\n## 1.1. Duct Jet Propulsion\n## 1.2. Rocket Propulsion\n## 1.3. Applications of Rocket Propulsion\n# 2 Definitions and Fundamentals\n## 2.1. Definitions\n## 2.2. Thrust\n## 2.3. Exhaust Velocity\n## 2.4. Energy and Efficiencies\n## 2.5. Multiple Propulsion Systems\n## 2.6. Typical Performance Values\n## 2.7. Variable Thrust\n# 3 Nozzle Theory and Thermodynamic Relations\n## 3.1. Ideal Rocket Propulsion Systems\n## 3.2. Summary of Thermodynamic Relations\n## 3.3. Isentropic Flow through Nozzles\n## 3.4. Nozzle Configurations\n## 3.5. Real Nozzles\n## 3.6. Nozzle Alignment\n# 4 Flight Performance\n## 4.1. Gravity-Free Drag-Free Space Flight\n## 4.2. Forces Acting on a Vehicle in the Atmosphere\n## 4.3. Basic Relations of Motion\n## 4.4. 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