Recently, I’ve been working on what materials we should use for O-rings inside our propellant tanks in my rocket club on campus. We’re building a bi-propellant rocket using IPA (isopropyl alcohol) and nitrous oxide (N2O). There are some of the notes I made trying to understand how a pressure vessel, essentially the tanks housing the … Continue reading Materials In Rocketry
For our bipropellant rocket, we aim to find tanks and the bottom and top parts of the enclosed tank that match our required pressure, stress, and weight ranges. This is tough considering there are so many variables at play, but we can do our best and try to get the values as accurately as possible. … Continue reading Fuel Tank Bulkhead Sizing
As part of the IBDP curriculum, in high school, I got the chance to write a research paper about a topic of my choosing (with so many restrictions I still have PTSD from it because I couldn’t do a lot of what I wanted to lol), but I managed to find a topic that interested … Continue reading Solar Panel Power Output
After joining UCSB’s rocket club, Gaucho Rocket Project, I have learned so much about all the different calculations that are undertaken while understanding the inner workings of the propulsion system in a rocket. The best way to learn about more of these is to read the paper I’ve written outlining the context, physics, and logic … Continue reading Rocket Propulsion Engineering
This post is basically a summary of me going down a rabbit hole. It all started with final preparation for my astronomy final. As you agree with me, astronomy is pretty freaking cool. Just for fun, I started reading some parts of the textbook which aren’t actually in the portion. Mistake numero uno. Now, in … Continue reading Where do we come from?
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I don’t like spending too much money. I find it wasteful if I can do the thing rather simply without needing to spend. For the longest time, I have been interested in astrophysics and astronomy and I thought, “well, physicists in general need to know how to code, and I like astrophysics. Why not combine … Continue reading Data Analysis for Astronomical Data
I’m writing this in a bus so ignore some mistakes that might be there lol. I couldn’t wait to write this post so here it is. If you read my previous post, you must know the first actual 3D design I’m creating, and it failed. Horribly. The actual pictures of the fail and the design … Continue reading 3D Designed Box: The Sequel
Before you ask, even I don’t know what the picture is. It’s weird and cool. I like it. For a long time I had been keen on doing Physics. Pure Physics. Understanding how different things around me work on a fundamental level, and for a long time the only way I knew how to do … Continue reading 3D Designed Box: Round 1
In the previous post, we learned about how transistors are made. They’re made from semiconductors (middle in conductivity between conductors and insulators) and are extremely tiny. These transistors can be thought of as tiny switches. In other words, one can control the flow of an electrical current through a larger circuit by controlling the flow … Continue reading Level 2: Logic Gates from Transistors
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