Spaatz Aerospace: Questions With Straightforward
Solutions
Who were the first people to use rockets as a weapon and when did that
occur? Accurate Answer:- 1232 the chinese used rockets called fire
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Who came up with rockets being powered by gun powder and when?
Accurate Answer:- Konrad Kieser von Eichstädt in 1405
What did William Congreve of Britain contribute to the rocket? Accurate
Answer:- Standardized gunpowder composition, added flight stabilizing
guide sticks, and built the first viable launch pads.
What did William Hale contribute to the rocket? Accurate Answer:- He
came up with idea of spin stabilization
What scientist made the first computations for rocket flights in space?
Accurate Answer:- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
What did Dr. Oberth contribute to the rocket? Accurate Answer:-
Studied and researched liquid rocket fuel
Who the father of modern rocketry and what is he known for? Accurate
Answer:- Dr. Robbert Goddard build the first liquid propellant rocket
What is newtons law of universal gravitation? Accurate Answer:- F=
(M1*M2)/(r^2)
What are newtons three laws of motion? Accurate Answer:- 1) Body at
rest stays at rest
2) F=ma
3) Every action has equal and opposite reaction
What are the four major systems of a rocket? Accurate Answer:- 1)
Airframe system
2) Propulsion system
3) Guidance system
,4) Control system
What is the brain of the rocket? Accurate Answer:- Guidance system
What are the three types of propulsion systems? Accurate Answer:-
Chemical, gas heating, and electric
Define specific impulse. Accurate Answer:- Number of pounds thrust
delivered by consuming one pound of propellant in one second
Define density impulse. Accurate Answer:- Relationship of thrust to
volume
What are the four characteristics of an air mass? Accurate Answer:- 1)
Surface over which it was formed
2) The season
3) Surface that it travels over
4) Length of time it has been away from its source
What is a squall line? Accurate Answer:- Line of thunderstorm
Which moves faster, cold or warm front? Accurate Answer:- Cold
What are the three general types of clouds? Accurate Answer:-
Cumulus, stratus, cirrus
In characterizing clouds, what does 'fracto' mean? Accurate Answer:-
Broken/ragged layer "fractostratus" is a broken stratus layer
Describe flying into a stratus cloud. Accurate Answer:- Low visibility
but not much if any turbulence
Describe flying in cumulus clouds. Accurate Answer:- Bumpy AF but not
really that dangerous unless there is a lot of vertical growth which is a big sign
of a thunderstorm.
What are the five types of fog? Accurate Answer:- Radiation, high-
inversion, advection, evaporation, and upslope
,What is El Nino and what is La Nina? Accurate Answer:- El Nino is the
heating of the Pacific Ocean effecting the weather around the world and La
Nina is the cooling of the ocean doing the same thing
Define windward and leeward? Accurate Answer:- Windward is the
side of a mountain facing the wind and leeward is the back side
What are three ways to study the make up of an atmosphere? Accurate
Answer:- 1) Its elements
2)Its regions
3) Its pressure
What is the troposphere? Accurate Answer:- The layer humans live in
from 0 to 55k feet.
What is the tropopause? Accurate Answer:- Divinding layer between
the the troposphere and the stratosphere
What is the stratosphere? Accurate Answer:- Above the troposphere up
to around 30miles up. There is a temp inversion here
What is the stratopause? Accurate Answer:- In-between stratosphere
and the mesosphere.
What is the mesosphere? Accurate Answer:- Above the stratosphere
and primarily a temp decrease with altitude, goes up to about 50m
What is the thermosphere? Accurate Answer:- This is the area above
the mesosphere and goes to about 300m, big temp inversion
What is the mesopause? Accurate Answer:- Layer in-between the
mesosphere and the thermosphere.
What are the temperature arrangement shells of the atmosphere?
Accurate Answer:- Trophosphere, tropopause, stratosphere, stratopause,
mesosphere, mesopause, thermosphere
What are the physicochemical process shells of the atmosphere? Accurate
Answer:- Ozonosphere and then Ionosphere
, What is the neutrosphere? Accurate Answer:- This is everything below
the ionosphere
What is the chemosphere? Accurate Answer:- Overlaps the
ozonosphere and ionosphere
What are the molecular composition layers of the atmosphere? Accurate
Answer:- Homosphere (all compounds are evenly mixed)
Heterosphere (all compound separate because of density with the heaviest
compounds at the bottom)
How is the exosphere defined? Accurate Answer:- Begins at the top of
earths atmosphere where atoms are so far apart that you would have to travel
100 miles before running into another one
As you increase temperature can more or less water be held in the air before
It becomes saturated? Accurate Answer:- More.
Define sublimation. Accurate Answer:- Gas to solid
What is the difference between humidity vs relative humidity? Accurate
Answer:- Humidity is how much water is in the air and relative is the
percent of how much water can be held in the air before reaching the dew
point.
What is the difference between condensation and precipitation? Accurate
Answer:- Both gas to liquid, condensation included clouds, fog, dew and
frost (does not fall from the sky)
Precipitation is everything that falls from the sky (rain. snow etc.)
What are the four types of heat transfer? Accurate Answer:- 1)
Conduction-one molecule heats up another adjacent molecule
2) Convection - heat transfer by vertical motion (thermals)
3) Advection - moving or blowing of air across another airmass
4) Radiation - heat is transferred by waves
Solutions
Who were the first people to use rockets as a weapon and when did that
occur? Accurate Answer:- 1232 the chinese used rockets called fire
arrows
Who came up with rockets being powered by gun powder and when?
Accurate Answer:- Konrad Kieser von Eichstädt in 1405
What did William Congreve of Britain contribute to the rocket? Accurate
Answer:- Standardized gunpowder composition, added flight stabilizing
guide sticks, and built the first viable launch pads.
What did William Hale contribute to the rocket? Accurate Answer:- He
came up with idea of spin stabilization
What scientist made the first computations for rocket flights in space?
Accurate Answer:- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
What did Dr. Oberth contribute to the rocket? Accurate Answer:-
Studied and researched liquid rocket fuel
Who the father of modern rocketry and what is he known for? Accurate
Answer:- Dr. Robbert Goddard build the first liquid propellant rocket
What is newtons law of universal gravitation? Accurate Answer:- F=
(M1*M2)/(r^2)
What are newtons three laws of motion? Accurate Answer:- 1) Body at
rest stays at rest
2) F=ma
3) Every action has equal and opposite reaction
What are the four major systems of a rocket? Accurate Answer:- 1)
Airframe system
2) Propulsion system
3) Guidance system
,4) Control system
What is the brain of the rocket? Accurate Answer:- Guidance system
What are the three types of propulsion systems? Accurate Answer:-
Chemical, gas heating, and electric
Define specific impulse. Accurate Answer:- Number of pounds thrust
delivered by consuming one pound of propellant in one second
Define density impulse. Accurate Answer:- Relationship of thrust to
volume
What are the four characteristics of an air mass? Accurate Answer:- 1)
Surface over which it was formed
2) The season
3) Surface that it travels over
4) Length of time it has been away from its source
What is a squall line? Accurate Answer:- Line of thunderstorm
Which moves faster, cold or warm front? Accurate Answer:- Cold
What are the three general types of clouds? Accurate Answer:-
Cumulus, stratus, cirrus
In characterizing clouds, what does 'fracto' mean? Accurate Answer:-
Broken/ragged layer "fractostratus" is a broken stratus layer
Describe flying into a stratus cloud. Accurate Answer:- Low visibility
but not much if any turbulence
Describe flying in cumulus clouds. Accurate Answer:- Bumpy AF but not
really that dangerous unless there is a lot of vertical growth which is a big sign
of a thunderstorm.
What are the five types of fog? Accurate Answer:- Radiation, high-
inversion, advection, evaporation, and upslope
,What is El Nino and what is La Nina? Accurate Answer:- El Nino is the
heating of the Pacific Ocean effecting the weather around the world and La
Nina is the cooling of the ocean doing the same thing
Define windward and leeward? Accurate Answer:- Windward is the
side of a mountain facing the wind and leeward is the back side
What are three ways to study the make up of an atmosphere? Accurate
Answer:- 1) Its elements
2)Its regions
3) Its pressure
What is the troposphere? Accurate Answer:- The layer humans live in
from 0 to 55k feet.
What is the tropopause? Accurate Answer:- Divinding layer between
the the troposphere and the stratosphere
What is the stratosphere? Accurate Answer:- Above the troposphere up
to around 30miles up. There is a temp inversion here
What is the stratopause? Accurate Answer:- In-between stratosphere
and the mesosphere.
What is the mesosphere? Accurate Answer:- Above the stratosphere
and primarily a temp decrease with altitude, goes up to about 50m
What is the thermosphere? Accurate Answer:- This is the area above
the mesosphere and goes to about 300m, big temp inversion
What is the mesopause? Accurate Answer:- Layer in-between the
mesosphere and the thermosphere.
What are the temperature arrangement shells of the atmosphere?
Accurate Answer:- Trophosphere, tropopause, stratosphere, stratopause,
mesosphere, mesopause, thermosphere
What are the physicochemical process shells of the atmosphere? Accurate
Answer:- Ozonosphere and then Ionosphere
, What is the neutrosphere? Accurate Answer:- This is everything below
the ionosphere
What is the chemosphere? Accurate Answer:- Overlaps the
ozonosphere and ionosphere
What are the molecular composition layers of the atmosphere? Accurate
Answer:- Homosphere (all compounds are evenly mixed)
Heterosphere (all compound separate because of density with the heaviest
compounds at the bottom)
How is the exosphere defined? Accurate Answer:- Begins at the top of
earths atmosphere where atoms are so far apart that you would have to travel
100 miles before running into another one
As you increase temperature can more or less water be held in the air before
It becomes saturated? Accurate Answer:- More.
Define sublimation. Accurate Answer:- Gas to solid
What is the difference between humidity vs relative humidity? Accurate
Answer:- Humidity is how much water is in the air and relative is the
percent of how much water can be held in the air before reaching the dew
point.
What is the difference between condensation and precipitation? Accurate
Answer:- Both gas to liquid, condensation included clouds, fog, dew and
frost (does not fall from the sky)
Precipitation is everything that falls from the sky (rain. snow etc.)
What are the four types of heat transfer? Accurate Answer:- 1)
Conduction-one molecule heats up another adjacent molecule
2) Convection - heat transfer by vertical motion (thermals)
3) Advection - moving or blowing of air across another airmass
4) Radiation - heat is transferred by waves
