Exterior Ballistics with Applications

About the Book

Exterior Ballistics with Applications – Skydiving, Parachute Fall, Flying Fragments presents a modern approach to introduce the basics of exterior ballistics and its methods from the simple ideal model of projectile motion to the automatic solution of the differential equations of projectile flight using PC programs.
The book uses different approaches to solve the differential equations of projectile motion — among them the Siacci method and the numerical methods.
The results obtained through the integration of differential equations of projectile flight are mostly analytical formulas that describe the projectile trajectory and make the exterior ballistics a comprehensible science.
The Differential Equations of Projectile Flight are also integrated numerically using some original PC programs that can be easily modified to be used in similar scenarios or other new ones and give the reader the possibility to solve a great variety of Exterior Ballistics problem.

Exterior Ballistics with Applications can be considered as an interdisciplinary applied mathematics and physics manuscript for the vast mathematics and physics models and techniques employed. It is a great source for applications in physics, calculus, differential equations, numerical methods, and PC programming as well.
The book is illustrated with about 140 solved examples related to different artillery and infantry firearms that demonstrate the use of formulas and the solution methods of ballistics to find the elements of projectile trajectories.

Exterior Ballistics with Applications includes as well two interesting topics that can be considered as applications of exterior ballistics:
1. Skydiving and parachute falling related with the trajectory of a parachutist launched from a horizontally flying airplane with un-deployed parachute, in different meteorological conditions, and in presence of air resistance and wind.
2. The ballistics of projectile fragments that is an important element of Terminal Ballistics necessary to study the effectiveness of fragmentation ammunitions on the personnel and objects, and other problems related with the construction of fragmentation ammunitions, or with Forensic Sciences.

Exterior Ballistics with Applications is comprehensive and serves as reference material to provide answers to problems encountered in the practice of motion of unguided projectiles, skydiving and flying fragments of antipersonnel ammunitions.

About the Author

George Klimi (Gjergj Klimi), PhD, is associate professor of Mathematics at NYC College of Technology and adjunct faculty at Pace University (New York). George is the author of three books on exterior ballistics: Exterior Ballistics with Applications (2008), Exterior Ballistics of Small Arms (2009), Exterior Ballistics: A New Approach (2010), published by Xlibris. The third edition of Exterior Ballistics with Applications, Xlibris, was published in December 2011. George Klimi, from 1970 until 1993, has been professor of physics and mathematics, and chair of the physics department at the Military Academy of Tirana, Albania. In the nineties George used to work at the Committee of Science and Technology and at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in Albania as Director of Tempus Office, responsible for the implementation of the European Community Programs to restructure higher education. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Eagle by the president of the Republic of Albania for his contribution in the democratic movement against dictatorship and for restructuring higher education in Albania.