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Mach’s construction

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shock front

  • differential manometer, Torricellian barometer, and siphon
    In fluid mechanics: Compressible flow in gases

    …Figure 8 show a well-known construction attributed to the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach that explains the origin of the shock front accompanying a supersonic projectile. The circular arcs in this figure represent cross sections through spherical disturbances that are spreading with speed Vs from centres (S′, S″, etc.), which mark…

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