Glass I. Shock Waves and Man 1974
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Introduction.
What is a shock wave?
Where do they occur?
How do they affect our lives?
Naturally Generated Shock Waves on Earth.
Thunder.
Earthquakes.
Volcanic eruptions.
Meteorite impacts.
Artificially Generated Shock Waves on Earth.
Bull whip.
Gunpowder.
Nuclear weapons.
Sonic boom.
Atmospheric re-entry phenomena.
Shock Waves in Space.
Solar wind.
Solar flares.
Exploding stars and galaxies.
Cosmological big bang.
Peaceful Uses of Chemical and Nuclear Explosives.
Varied industrial applications of chemical explosives.
Imaginative peaceful potential uses of nuclear explosives.
Planar, Cylindrical and Spherical Exploding and Imploding Shock Waves.
Generation of shock waves by moving pistons and bursting diaphragms.
Laboratory controlled explosions and implosions.
Underwater blast.
Shock-wave collision.
Molecular structure of shock waves in gases.
Properties of normal shock waves.
Some characteristics of TNT and nuclear explosions.
Other Types of Shock Waves.
Oblique and conical shock waves.
Interaction of shock waves.
Shock waves in solids and cratering phenomena.
Deflagration and detonation waves.
Shock waves produced by focussed-laser radiation.
Some Facilities for Studying Shock-Wave Phenomena in the Laboratory.
Hypervelocity shock tube.
Shock sphere.
Explosively-driven implosion shock tube.
Supersonic wind tunnel.
Hypersonic shock tunnel.
Low-density tunnel.
Plasma tunnel.
Hypervelocity free-flight range.
Sonic-boom simulator.
Shock Waves and the Human Condition.
Shock waves and survival.
Shock waves and man.
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