Please Help Me!!

[physicsdummy]

[b]1. I have a physics paper due tomorrow about how physics relates to shuttle launching and every search engine tells me how about the shuttle mission and nothing else.



[b]2. So does anyone have any ideas that I can work off of?



[b]3. Or does anyone have a useful website that I can gather information from?

[marlon]

How about the elementary principle that describe the actual launching process ? Conservation of total energy, gravitational interaction ??? Take your pick.

marlon

[berkeman]

[b]3. Or does anyone have a useful website that I can gather information from?

wikipedia.org is a good place to start for non-controversial basic science stuff. Here's their page on rockets (which the Shuttle is, after all):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket

They might have a separate page on the Space Shuttle as well.