🚀 go-pugleaf

My father still reckons that they didn't go to the moon and that it was a
'put up job'.  Too much Capricorn One I think.

What level of course are you doing? It might be worth having a word with
your tutor/lecturer/mentor.  I'd guess the examining board would be looking
for particular elements within any paper.  By looking at it top down you
would remove doubts about whether something should go in or not.  Collecting
and analysing data can be pretty time consuming and may not be a good move
from a percentages point of view.

The last time I looked at the NASA sites they seemed to be pretty good for
information.

Stephen




Forni <ip.forni@nospam.isiline.it> wrote in message
news:39313A23.D5A5E0D7@nospam.isiline.it...
> Hi everybody, I'm following a course of physics and I'm going to do a
> little report about the moon landing. I have to insert the following
> points inside:
>
> -description of the physical phenomenon
> -description of the experimental machinery and procedures
> -data
> -data analysis
> -discussion
>
> The first 2 and the last point aren't a problem.
> Instead it's kind of hard to find all the information I need for the 3rd
>
> and 4th points.
>
> I need to find all the most important data of the Apollo mission:
> weight, thrust, acceleration, etc.. practically all the information
> needed to transform the Apollo landing in a problem of physics.
>
> I chose, as the most representative of a moon landing, Apollo 11.
>
> The course of physics I'm following is about basic physics (newton's
> laws, universal gravitation's law,  etc.)
>
> Since now I took all these information
>  http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/manspace/apollo/apollo11.pdf
>  http://www.thebest.net/jduncan/pdf/a11techsum.pdf
>
> In the data analysis section I was thinking about starting from
> the third law of motion to arrive to the rocket equation, it is well
> explained in this page
> http://www.jps.net/ethelen/rocket-eq.html
> In this part I will explain the principle which constitutes the basis of
>
> rocket science, therefore I'll explain why a multi stage rocket is the
> cheapest solution.
>
> Then I wanted to insert the universal gravitation's law and go from it
> to the concept (and equation) of escape velocity.
>
> Then, the problem is, I don't know if it makes any sense analyzing the
> "whole" data, since putting all the data I can get about the
> acceleration, thrust, velocity... into those equation would require even
>
> more data (i.e. changing gravity in time, Coriolis force).
>
> I don't *have* to do such a complex thing, anyway, I do like this topic
> and I want my report to be good.
>
> So, another thing I'm asking you: what would you insert and what would
> you omit in the data analysis?
> As i said before, the data analysis part has to look like a quite long,
> basic physics problem.
>
> My report won't be "round trip".
> It'll be basically divided into:
> -Ascent phase
> -Earth orbit phase
> -Translunar phase
> -Lunar orbit phase
> -Descent (moon) phase
>
> Thanks a lot, Ippolito Forni
>
> PS
> I'm sorry for those readers where this message is pretty OT, but I tried
> to send it on sci.space.science and sci.space.tech many times and it
> never got posted. Maybe the moderator doesn't like it for some reason.
>