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Can you launch a rocket without chemical fuel? Can you power a rocket with just water? With just air? Written for educators, homeschoolers, parents--and kids!--this fully illustrated book provides a fun mix of projects, discussion materials, instructions, and subjects for deeper investigation around the basics of air and water powered rockets. With the projects in this book, you can spend more time learning and experimenting, and less time planning and preparing. You'll make and experiment with: Air powered rockets Water-powered rockets Hydraulic and pneumatic pressure systems Rocket stands Low- and high-pressure rocket launchers

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Mike sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer, then used it to write ORCA/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer's Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS. Since then Mike has developed numerous compilers and interpreters, software for mission-critical physics packages for military satellites, plasma physics simulations for Z-pinch experiments, multimedia authoring tools for grade schoolers, disease surveillance programs credited with saving lives of hurricane Katrina refugees, advanced military simulations that protect our nation's most critical assets, and technical computing software for iOS. Mike currently runs the Byte Works, an independent software publishing and consulting firm.

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