AEROSPACE
Defying Gravity
Aerospace engineering deals with the design, development, testing, and production of aircraft, spacecraft, and propulsion systems. It operates at the extreme limits of physics—where air becomes a solid wall and heat can melt steel.
Aerodynamics
Fluid dynamics. How air flows around objects to generate Lift and Drag.
Propulsion
Engines. Jet turbines, rocket nozzles, and ion thrusters. Newton's 3rd Law.
Avionics
The nervous system. Sensors, communications, and fly-by-wire control systems.
Orbital Mechanics
Astrodynamics. Trajectories, Hohmann transfers, and the gravity well.
WIND_TUNNEL
The pilot must balance angle. Too low = no lift. Too high = stall (separation of airflow).
The De Laval Nozzle
The secret to supersonic exhaust. By narrowing the throat (converging) and then widening it (diverging), rocket engines convert high pressure heat into high velocity thrust.