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From the article:
"Fleming: The most difficult class I took at Stanford was graduate level Propulsion. AA 283 which was made more difficult by the fact I was taking this class while training for the combine and the final exam was around two hours after my Pro Day had ended."
Here is the course description:Â
AA 283: Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion
Introduction to the design and performance of airbreathing and rocket engines. Topics: the physical parameters used to characterize propulsion system performance; gas dynamics of nozzles and inlets; cycle analysis of ramjets, turbojets, turbofans, and turboprops; component matching and the compressor map; introduction to liquid and solid propellant rockets; multistage rockets; hybrid rockets; thermodynamics of reacting gases. Prerequisites: undergraduate background in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.