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A Simple Course on Astronautics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

G. R. Langdale
G. R. Langdale*
Affiliation:
Welbeck College, Worksop, Notts
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A short course on the simple mathematics of satellites and space travel was tried as an experiment with boys who had just completed their “A” level examinations. They were “B” stream boys who had taken the Cambridge G.C.E. in Mathematics as one subject. The contents of the course may be of interest to others with time to occupy after examinations, or as useful illustrations of normal work in both pure and applied mathematics.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 47 , Issue 360 , May 1963 , pp. 107 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1963

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