ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 has provided us with the necessary background to discuss procedures that calculate the behavior of projectiles and propellant in the gun tube. The chapter had to be brief because detailed treatment of any one of the subjects could be (and are) collected into complete texts in their own right. The reader is directed to the references at the end of the chapter if a more complete background in the individual subject is felt to be necessary. Much like other introductory texts on difficult subjects, this chapter shall begin with
fundamental treatments that will allow the reader to perform meaningful calculations of interior ballistic problems. This simplified treatment will, by its very nature, not provide exact answers but answers which are reasonable from an engineering viewpoint. As will be discussed, more exact methods require a varying degree of computer assets.
