Expert: Paul Soderman - 4/8/2010

Question
Hi, my name is Jake and I am finishing up my freshman year of college and am currently finishing up calculus 2. I want to broaden my knowledge a little over the summer about aeronautical engineering so that I have background information on my future college courses. I was wondering if you knew of any books that have a good connection to aeronautical engineering that I could read over the summer. It seems that every book I find is highly mathematically advanced and aimed towards graduate students. I just want to find a simple introductory book.Thanks for your help and have a great day.

Answer
Jake
I have never seen an aerodynamics book that doesn't have a lot of mathematics.  The one I use is Fundamentals of Aerodynamics by Kuethe and Schetzer, but may not be in print.  I think the aerodynamics book by John Anderson is also good.  You might try some websites that are more geared to students such as:

http://sites.google.com/site/aerodynamics4students/table-of-contents
or
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html
or
http://desktop.aero/aabook.php

Good luck.
Paul