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Key terms
Aerodynamics
History
Recovery Systems
Newton's Laws
100
A system that provides a propelling or driving force
What is a Propulsion system?
100
The four forces on a rocket
What are lift, thrust, weight, and drag?
100
The first American in space
Who is Alan Shepard?
100
The two types of recovery systems
What are parachutes and streamers?
100
The second law
What is force equals mass times acceleration?
200
The structure of the body of the rocket
What is frame?
200
The factors that affect aerodynamics on a rocket
What are the object, the motion, and the air?
200
The first satellite
What is Sputnik?
200
Lifts the parachute out of the turbulence of the rocket
What is the riser?
200
A unit of force
What is a newton?
300
The rotation of the rocket on its vertical axis
What is yaw?
300
The most aerodynamic fin
What is the elliptical fin?
300
The first lunar landing
What is Apollo 11
300
The best length to width ratio for streamer design
What is 10:1?
300
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is the third law?
400
The aerodynamic force parallel to the wind
What is Drag?
400
The sources of lift when a rocket's flight path is at an angle
What are the nose, airframe, and fins?
400
The three fathers of rocketry
Who are Robert Goddard, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Hermann Oberth?
400
A swaying motion as the parachute spills air from it's sides
What is oscillation?
400
The year Isaac Newton saw an apple fall
What is 1666?
500
The aerodynamic force perpendicular to the flight direction
What is Lift?
500
The force generated by gravity
What is weight?
500
America's first space station
What is Skylab Space Station
500
Violent or unsteady movement of air
What is turbulence?
500
Objects at rest will stay at rest and objects in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force
What is the first law of motion?