NASA CONNECT™ Breaking Barriers: Solving Linear Equations©

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Breaking Barriers: Solving Linear Equations©
Release Date: April 20, 2006

Resources

Web Sites

The Dopplar Effect and Sonic Booms: Animations and Explanations
http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/doppler/doppler.html

How Stuff Works: Scramjets
http://www.howstuffworks.com/hypersonic-plane.htm

Movies of Planes Breaking the Sound Barrier

Books

Graham, Ian: Planes, Rockets, and Other Flying Machines. Scholastic Library Publishing, 2000, ISBN: 0531118789.

Oxlade, Chris: Flight. Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 20001, ISBN: 0764153633.

Parker, Steve: Sound. Chelsea House Publishers, 2005, ISBN: 0791082105.

Videos

NASA's Center for Distance Learning: NASA CONNECT™, Tools of the Aeronautics Trade (2000)
Grades 6 - 8

NASA's Center for Distance Learning: NASA SCI Files™, The Case of the Deafening Sound (2006)
Grades 3 - 5

Discovery Channel: Secrets of Future Air Power (2005)
Grades 6 - 12

Mazzarella: Real World Science (2001)
Grades 3 - 6

Nova: Faster than Sound (1997)
Grades 7 to adult

Smithsonian Education: Higher, Faster, Farther (1993)
Grades 7 to adult

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