Aerodynamics

AerodynamicsAuthoritative and engaging, this popular history traces the science of aerodynamics from the age of Newton through the mid twentieth century. Author Theodore von Karman, a well known pioneer in aerodynamic research, addresses himself to readers acquainted with the facts of aviation but less familiar with the field's underlying theories. A former director of the Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, von Karman founded the

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will find the first six chapters comprise a complete university-level course in the subject

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