The pedagogical aim of the present paper, thought for an undergraduate audience, is to help students
\nto appreciate how the development of elementary models based on physics first principles is a
\nfundamental and necessary preliminary step for the behaviour of complex real systems to be grasped
\nwith minimal amounts of math. In some particularly fortunate cases, such models also show reasonably
\ngood results when are compared to reality. The speed behaviour of the Space Shuttle during its first
\ntwo minutes of flight from liftoff is here analysed from such a didactical point of view. Only the
\nmomentum conservation law is employed to develop the model, which is eventually applied to
\nquantitatively interpret the telemetry of the 2011 last launches of Shuttle Discovery and Shuttle
\nEndeavour .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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