Gantmakher F.R., Levin L.M. The flight of uncontrolled rockets

Translated from Russian by О.M. Blunn. — Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1964. — 397 p. (International Series of Monographs on Aeronautics and Astronautics, Division 7: Astronautics).Оригинальное издание: Гантмахер Ф.Р., Левин Л.М. Теория полета неуправляемых ракет. М.: Изд-во физико-математической литературы, 1959.
Присутствует значительное количество "пустых" страниц.International Series of Monographs on Aeronautics and Astronautics, Division VII, Volume 5: The Flight of Uncontrolled Rockets focuses on external ballistics of uncontrolled rockets. The book first discusses the equations of motion of rockets. The rocket as a system of changing composition; application of solidification principle to rockets; rotational motion of rockets; and equations of motion of the center of mass of rockets are described. The text looks at the calculation of trajectory of rockets and the fundamentals of rocket dispersion.
This book constitutes a systematic course on the external ballistics of uncontrolled rockets, i.e. it investigates the nature of the trajectories of these projectiles. No study is made of the processes taking place inside the rocket chamber, this being the province of internal ballistics.
Two problems are distinguished: (a) the calculation of the trajectory, and (b) the problem of rocket accuracy, i.e. the investigation of the causes of dispersion and the search for methods for its improvement. The study of the latter problem is the main object of the book.
The first systematic investigations into rocket dispersion were made in the USSR when designing the M-8 and M-13 types of solid propellant rocket. During World War II (1941-45) S.A. Khristanovtch directed a comprehensive programme of experimental and theoretical studies which led to the development of rockets with improved dispersion (M-13 UK and M-31 UK types): the theoretical investigations of the authors formed part of this programme. These investigations and the course of lectures delivered by the authors in the post-war years form the basis of the present book.