Marchman J. Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance 3ed 2021

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This text is designed for a course in Aircraft Performance that is taught before the students have had any course in fluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, or aerodynamics. The text is meant to provide the essential information from these types of courses that is needed for teaching basic subsonic aircraft performance, and it is assumed that the students will learn the full story of aerodynamics in other, later courses. The text assumes that the students will have had a university level Physics sequence in which they will have been introduced to the most fundamental concepts of statics, dynamics, fluid
mechanics, and basic conservation laws that are needed to understand the coverage that follows. Separate courses in engineering statics and dynamics are helpful but not necessary. It is also assumed that students will have completed first year university level calculus sequence plus a course in multi-variable calculus. Any student who takes a course using this text after completing courses in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics should find the chapters of this book covering those subjects an interesting review of the material, perhaps with a different emphasis than previously seen