Using a Model Rocket-Engine Test Stand in a Calculus Course

2002 ◽  
Vol 95 (7) ◽  
pp. 516-519
Author(s):  
Mike Weiss ◽  
Brian Dodge ◽  
Kate Harden ◽  
Amy Hempstead ◽  
Jeff Lloyd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Rocket Engine ◽  
Test Stand ◽  
Engine Test ◽  
Approximation Techniques ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Riemann Sum ◽  
Calculus Students ◽  
Model Rocket Engine

Advanced Placement calculus students from Yarmouth High School, located in Yarmouth, Maine, built a model rocket-engine test stand in May 2000. This project was used to reinforce calculus concepts. In addition, it furnished data for a future freshman-science rocketry project. Students used the concepts of the average value of a function, along with Riemann-sum approximation techniques and spreadsheet skills to determine the average thrust of a model rocket engine.

scholarly journals Integrated System Health Management: Pilot Operational Implementation in a Rocket Engine Test Stand

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Figueroa ◽  
John Schmalzel ◽  
Jonathan Morris ◽  
Mark Turowski ◽  
Richard Franzl
Keyword(s):  
Health Management ◽  
Rocket Engine ◽  
Test Stand ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Engine Test

Development of a Mobile Rocket Engine Test Stand (MRETS)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Betady ◽  
Luis Ortiz ◽  
Ben Younes ◽  
Kenny Villanueva ◽  
Anthony Saikaly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rocket Engine ◽  
Test Stand ◽  
Engine Test

A Monte Carlo Application to Approximate Pi

1991 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 387-390
Author(s):  
Kenneth Easterday ◽  
Tommy Smith
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Approximation Techniques ◽  
Monte Carlo Procedure ◽  
Calculus Students ◽  
Integration Techniques ◽  
College Calculus

Instruction in the concept of area begins in elementary school and continues through college calculus. Students learn to apply formulas for certain plane figures and later, integration techniques. For figures that are not “nice” shapes or for “irregular” functions, students are taught approximation techniques, which range from counting squares in middle school to trigonometric approximations in high school and various methods of calculus. The purpose of this article is to offer the use of the Monte Carlo procedure on the microcomputer as an alternative tool for approximating areas. One of the introductory applications of the technique is to find the area of a circle, which permits us to approximate pi.

Project Atlas - A Mobile, Trailer-Mounted, Rocket Engine Test Stand

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcuin Rajan ◽  
Conrad Herold Wright ◽  
Elijah Gravenhorst ◽  
Ilteris Demirkiran ◽  
Colin Mickels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rocket Engine ◽  
Test Stand ◽  
Engine Test

Liquid Rocket Engine Test Stand Planning

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Emdee ◽  
M. J. Adams ◽  
S. Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Rocket Engine ◽  
Test Stand ◽  
Liquid Rocket Engine ◽  
Engine Test ◽  
Liquid Rocket
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