Recent content by Spartanlol

I want to be an aerospace engineer, but I lack the passion to do independent study or have a general interest in physics and calculus. I'm afraid that not being highly interested in those two fields will be a major handicap and ultimately cause me to hate my job.

I'll try to keep this brief and concise, but I do have quite a bit to discuss so please bear with me. To give you a backstory, I am a sophomore at a university pursuing a BS, and eventually an MS, in aerospace engineering. I was undecided upon a major until the end of my senior year of high...

Well, see, I'm doing aerospace, but it will eventually give me options to either focus more on aeronautics or astronautics. My ideal job with an aerospace degree is to work on propulsion with SpaceX and help devise new models of spacecraft with better propulsion systems to get us farther in...

I made a thread a month or two ago when I was questioning my current major. I am currently an aerospace engineer with plans to get a minor in physics/astrophysics. I started questioning my decision and wanted to lean toward switching to Astrophysics as my major, and possibly get aerospace engi...

I made a thread a month or two ago when I was questioning my current major. I am currently an aerospace engineer with plans to get a minor in physics/astrophysics. I started questioning my decision and wanted to lean toward switching to Astrophysics as my major, and possibly get aerospace engi...

Ha, thanks man. Ya, I know the chances are slim, especially with no experience. However they do have applications for students fresh out of universities, so there is still a chance. Also I'm doing a program to do part of my MS degree my senior year (the courses will count toward both my BS and...

I understand I will not do all this alone. It does concern me a bit the way you word it though. Regardless, I hope to find a job contracting for the military or DoD to build missiles/weapons. That and working for SpaceX (doing anything; just want to be a part of this team as they are going to...

Thanks for the advice Thefan. I definitely agree, and I will talk to the advisors and see if they can steer me in the right direction. My feelings of switching are just slowly getting bigger and bigger. I love aerospace and would love to get involved with propulsion of rockets but anytime I see...

Well, now that I think about it, wouldn't this answer be wrong? If it is the change in pressure, and we are going down to 2atm, wouldn't it still come out at positive 1atm, since the starting atm is 1? Or do we just count the starting pressure as 0?!

My apologies, I meant p is change in pressure.

Well, he gave us a hint of: "Hint: what equation relates altitude (or depth) with pressure?" This equation would make sense. I'm not sure what you mean by the density being a constant. It already is. However, when calculating for pressure you need the specific weight of water which requires...

One atmosphere of pressure is equal to 101,325 Pa. If the density of water is 998 kg/m3, what is the necessary depth to reach 2 atm of pressure relative to the surface Hydrostatic equation: p=-wh where p is change in density, w is specific weight (density*gravity), and h is change in...

My current issue is that I am starting to believe I made a slightly wrong choice in my degree. But then again, it's hard to say. I love everything about space and so getting a degree in it has been my dream. I really want to be one of the people that help move our society toward space travel. I...

My current issue is that I am starting to believe I made a slightly wrong choice in my degree. But then again, it's hard to say. I love everything about space and so getting a degree in it has been my dream. I really want to be one of the people that help move our society toward space travel. I...

UPDATE Just tried to solve it myself and I think it worked. I turned 6.14x10^-4 slug/ft^3 to .3164 kg/m^3, 525mph to 234.696 m/s, and 2.97x10^-7 lb-s/ft^2 to 1.422x10^-5 N-s/m^2 I think those were the correct unit required to keep this dimensionally homogeneous since Re number is unitless...