Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines and Rockets, Second Edition (Aiaa Education) 2nd Edition

It is just what the teacher ordered.

Great book, covers all what I needed for my propulsion course.

The textbook content is good. The cover was dented despite buying it new.

As advertised.

Every Version available on this textbook has a specific chapter that was mandatory to be provided for each chapter. This book was missing a crucial chapter (Concept on Ramjet) and an appendix table. The provider should advise the customer what chapter are provided and not. So another buyer will not make the mistake I had to experience.

This book may be published, but I honestly believe there was a mix-up somewhere and they accidentally published the first draft. If not, I can only conclude that Joseph A. Schetz is an incomprehensibly incompetent editor.The book is littered with mistakes: typesetting errors, at least one missing paragraph, poorly-numbered equations, and a surprising number of equations that are simply false. At least one problem requires you to prove an equation is true when it isn't true. It is so bad that at the beginning of class my professor published a paper supposedly containing all the mistakes this book makes. These errata run to 3 pages... and don't even include the chapter problems. Between 1% and 10% of the problems in this book have some error (missing 0s are the most common mistake).Another problem with this book is missing Appendices. Appendix L and M are not included and only available in the online version. To make matters worse, these appendices are REQUIRED for some problems.This textbook is conceptually excellent, has excellent examples, has a pleasant format, and appears to be quite exhaustive on the theoretical underpinnings of turbine and rocket propulsion; but I cannot recommend it. Even if there were no obvious errors (formatting, wrong symbols, etc.), the sheer number of wrong results make this book too untrustworthy to use. The missing appendices merely add insult to injury.