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'''Aerospace engineering''' related content is to be organized and developed here.
Humans will have to colonize other planets eventually. Life may not be able to survive on Earth indefinitely.
== Projects and resources ==
Select a descriptive name for each new link. See [[Meta:Naming conventions|naming conventions]].
==Suggested Structure==
* [[Aerospace engineering research]]
* [[General introduction]]
* [[Aerospace structures and materials]]
====General Prerequisites====
* [[About scram jets]]
* [[Basic Mathematics]] - differentials, integrals, basic mechanics, vector algebra, matrices and matrix manipulation, total derivative (for mass and momentum equations, among others)
- [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Calculus Introductory calculus on Wikibooks]
- [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Differential_Equations Differential Equations on Wikibooks]
* Thermodynamics/Heat Transfer - Zereoth, First, Second and Third Laws, Enthalpy, Entropy, Clausius Inequality and ??, Steady State Equation, Modelling Gas Turbines/Engines, Conduction, Convection, Radiation (Black Body, Grey Body)
** Potential reading - [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Engineering_Thermodynamics Engineering Thermodynamics on Wikibooks]
* Circuits/Electronics
* Physics - Forces, Gravity Equation
==== Statics ====
== Readings ==
* Structural Analysis
* [[About aerospace engineering]]
* Mechanics - Friction on a surface, Rolling bodies, Stability, Pure/Damped/Forced Harmonic Motion, Orbits (reaching orbit, geostationary point, changing orbit, escape velocity)
==== Fluid mechanics ====
==External links==
* Aerodynamics - Derivation of shear stress on a fluid, perfect gas equation, Bernoulli equation, Langrangian and Eulerian reference frames, control volumes and control surfaces, Conservation of mass up to 3-d, balance of momentum equations up to 3-d, Aerofoils, Circulation,
* December 2008 ''[http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2008/December/22-28/dec2508-Futuristic-flying-bike-video/?&R=EPI-105247 Futuristic flying bike video ]
