Can anyone help me learn basic rocket science on my own. Where do I start?

Question

I am a school student doing a project and I have to learn rocket science out of a book but I don't know who to talk to if I don't understand something. Like what are fluid dynamics? Where can I get simple info that i can understand?

Answer 1

You should be able to find books at various levels.  You might start with history by looking at the research of Robert Goddard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._G...

You might start with that link or Rocket in wikipedia and follow the links and sources at the bottom of each of the pages.  

  You will have a distance to go before you have to deal seriously with fluid dynamics in the functioning of a rocket because most of what you can safely build and launch are simply built symetrically and don't get involved seriously in fluid dynamics because the don't go fast enough.    

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

  You can get more history information by eSearching 'American Rocket Society'

and you can get access to basic rocket stuff at http://www.nar.org/