A ballistic missile is an object driven by rocket engines that describes a non-orbital trajectory, ie it does not describe an orbit but falls back to a point in the body from which it was launched.
The application illustrates, with analytical, graphical and numerical methods, the flight of a multi-stage ballistic missile.
Prerequisites required for understanding the app are mathematical and physical knowledge given in the last years of high school.
The application consists of:
1 -Theory of vertical flight neglecting the resistance of air and gravity with altitude;
2-Theory of inclined flight neglecting the resistance of air and gravity with altitude;
3-Theory of flight by numerical method, taking into account the resistance of air and gravity with altitude;
4-Application of the previous theory on vertical flight;
5-Application of the previous theory on inclined flight.
The application (4 or 5), after having entered the characteristics of the missile, traces the acceleration, speed and distance diagrams as a function of time and determines the kinematics characteristics of the flight, ie fixed a certain flight time calculates the acceleration, the speed, and the space traveled to that moment. Also for the inclined flight it traces the trajectory followed by the missile.
