FRS 001G — Sec. 001 — (1 unit) — CRN 76133 — T 2:10-3:00 pm — 1070 Bainer
Rocket Science

Instructor: Mohamed Hafez, Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering, College of Engineering

Description: These seminars will be prepared for freshmen who are interested to know about rockets. The relevant concepts will be explained in a simple manner, from first principles and based only on high school math and science. The students will be encouraged to study simple experiments to demonstrate the basic ideas discussed in the lectures.

Prerequisites: High School Math (geometry, algebra & trig., calculus) High School Science (chemistry, physics)

Format: Nine lectures including lab and demonstrations are planned to cover the main aspects of the subject. A textbook will be used to back up the lectures and for further readings. Homework will be assigned every lecture. Instructor will be available during regular office hours for helping the students. Grading: The grades will be based on homework assignment as well a final project, equally weighted.

About the Instructor: The instructor received his PhD from Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, in 1972. He worked at Flow Research, Inc. in Kent Washington for few years before he joined NASA Langley Research Center, in Hampton , Virginia, in 1980. He came to Davis in 1985 as a professor of Aeronautical Engineering, and since then he has been teaching theoretical and computational aerodynamics at both graduate and undergraduate levels. He also participated in the COSMOS summer program for high school students during the last two years. His research is in the fields of Computational Fluid Mechanics and Transonic Aerodynamics.