Exterior Ballistics 1935 is a complete textbook of those elements of exterior ballistics which form the fundamentals of naval gunnery, written for the use of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy by Lieutenant Commander Ernest E. Herrmann, U.S. Navy. The text covers the full mathematical treatment of projectile trajectories from vacuum equations through the complex effects of atmospheric resistance, drift, wind, and the rotation of the Earth.
The fifteen chapters progress from introductory definitions and vacuum trajectory theory through Siacci’s method, numerical integration, ballistic tables, proving-ground determination of initial velocity, the construction of range-table columns, and the use of range tables to correct gunfire from ships. Later chapters address the accidental errors of gunfire and the application of probability theory to determine hitting probability and analyze salvos. Four appendices cover Ingalls’ method, short-range limitations, inclined trajectories and antiaircraft fire, and the effect of wind on projectile precession.
This copy is complete: 323 scanned pages including the preface, all fifteen chapters, four appendices, bibliography, and index.