A treatment of the physical and chemical theoretical   principles which govern the characteristics and performance of propellants and   explosives; theories to explain stability, sensitivity, combustion, detonation,   initiation, power, shaped charge effect, and flash and smoke formations;   thermochemical and thermodynamic calculations to enable performance to be   predicted; kinetics of reaction of important systems; modern research   instrumentation; test procedures; methods of evaluating propellants and   explosives.
      

     Fall and Spring semester. (At Dover, NJ)