Logarithmic Spiral: An Ideal Trajectory for the Interplanetary Vehicle with Engines of Low Sustained Thrust

DOI10.1119/1.1934788zbMath0083.20303OpenAlexW1974299710MaRDI QIDQ3256012

Ralph Hoyt Bacon

Publication date: 1959

Published in: American Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1934788

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fluid mechanics

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