
   Richard Joel Thompson
   Changes and corrections made to thesis
   
   all page references are to the new thesis PDF file, not old

   Typos, plurality corrections, and other grammatical considerations were
   corrected as per the copies recieved from committee members, but their
   corrections were not included in this list.

   These correspond to changes suggested by my committee. No suggestions
   were ignored; they were all incorporated into the thesis, as well as
   a few I caught myself. Thanks for the suggestions made; they have all
   made my thesis stronger.

-- changed abstract of thesis to reflect more methodology and results
-- added a new first paragraph to Section 1.1 regarding thesis statement (p1)
-- changed 'three predominant methods' to 'two' (p3)
-- corrected statement regarding solar sails (p4)
-- corrected 'thrusters' from 'drives' regarding EP devices (p5)
-- added a paragraph in Section 1.4 regarding use of MACH2 and methodology (p7, 2nd paragraph)
-- changed 2nd- and 3rd-to-last paragraphs in Section 1.4 to include more results (p7-8)
-- changed sentence regarding restriction of physics (p11)
-- changed 'linearly related' x2 (p12)
-- added MACH2 comments to end of 2nd paragraph, Section 2.1 (p12)
-- changed to 'deposited' for laser power (p13)
-- corrected 'commonly explored' to 'is' (p14)
-- added units to Equation 2.10 (p15)
-- added reference for I_sp in theory under ablation efficiency section p(15-16)
-- removed 'giganewtons' (p17)
-- corrected 'these simulations' to 'sims in this thesis' (p17)
-- added 'three velocity components' (p19)
-- added 'when applicable' in MACH2 section (p24)
-- corrected 'poorly understood' to 'not readily available' (p26)
-- started new paragraph for 'The perfect gas law...' (p26)
-- removed several 'tend to's' (p22)
-- added descriptions of plots at beginning of Section 3.1 (p29)
-- fixed trailing space after trademark in Teflon (p30)
-- corrected 'space environment' to 'conditions of Phipps experiment' (p30)
-- started new paragraph 'Due to nature of MACH2...' (p30)
-- added 'in these prototypes' (p30)
-- corrected 'qualitative' to 'quantitative' (p30)
-- changed Table 3.1's ablation efficiency unit from [] to [%] (p32)
-- corrected 'listed tasks above'; specified Ch1 (p32)
-- changed 'pre-treating' to explain what (p32)
-- corrected info in caption for Figure 3.2
-- corrected info in caption for Figure 3.3
-- corrected 'history routine' (p36)
-- added equations in-text for E_k and p_y (p36)
-- corrected Section reference (p38)
-- added nomenclature in-text and in front regarding thrust measurements (p38)
-- ??? couldn't understand comment of 'MACH2' at top of p37
-- compared p_y measurement to check (p39)
-- added 'effectively mass-averaged' (p40)
-- added reference on p42
-- added nomenclature of energetics from Table 4.1 in-text (p43)
-- corrected 'mode of operation' on p43
-- added a reference for detonation (p44)
-- added a reference for 2007 research (p44)
-- added a reference for equation 4.7 (p46)
-- corrected 'polymer' to GAP (p47)
-- corrected propellant boundaries comment (p48)
-- corrected table comments of energetic properties (p48)
-- added a paragraph at end of energetics chapter regarding Cm and Isp results (p52)
-- 'deficient' to 'detrimental' (p57)
-- added description of plot results for nozzles (p50)

