If you want to really knowho they work- set up a model and use em-
all the formulas and atricles and textbook stuf -is nice as a background
Until you do it -you really don't know squat about it. One of the big problems today with our multi jillion fighters etc.,which are now mothballed (rust etc.,) is that the shoools are turning out experts with no practical background. Is this my opinion?. no- I heard it directly from a friend who writes the tests for engineering/physics at some of the top schools in the country.
If you want to hear a real thought provoker - get him going on the value of the space programs
One of the biggest wastes of money ever .
Not politically correct, to be sure -