Title
GlowScript implementation of completed code
Department/School
Physics
Date
2-3-2019
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This exercise set requires the students to generate a computational model for rocket motion in one dimension in the absence of outside forces, and to compare the resulting velocity to the rocket equation (Δv=uln(mim)). From there, students calculate position and velocity data for both constant and Newtonian gravity, and implement models with both altitude-independent drag (D=12ρv2CdA), and one that considers the air density as a function of altitude.
Published in
PICUP Collection
Citation/Other Information
for David Marasco, "Computing the 1-D Motion of a V2 Rocket"