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  • 1Shock wave — Bombshock redirects here. For the Transformers character, see Micromasters#Bombshock. For other uses, see shockwave. Schlieren photograph of an attached shock on a sharp nosed supersonic body. A shock wave (also called shock front or simply shock …

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  • 2Shock factor — is a commonly used figure of merit for estimating the amount of shock experienced by a naval target from an underwater explosion as a function of explosive charge weight, slant range, and depression angle (between vessel and charge).* R is the… …

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  • 3Shock Wave (Six Flags Over Texas) — Infobox roller coaster name = Shock Wave caption = Vertical loop on the Shock Wave coaster at Six Flags over Texas location = Six Flags Over Texas type = Steel manufacturer = Anton Schwarzkopf designer = Werner Stengel model = custom looping… …

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  • 4Oblique shock — A small scale X 15 placed in a NASA supersonic wind tunnel produces an oblique shock wave at the nose of the model (along with other shocks). An oblique shock wave, unlike a normal shock, is inclined with respect to the incident upstream flow… …

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  • 5Bow shock (aerodynamics) — For other uses, see Bow shock. A blunt body fired from a gun against a supersonic flow in a wind tunnel, producing a bow shock. A bow shock, also called a detached shock, is a curved, stationary shock wave that is found in supersonic flow past a… …

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  • 6inclined shock — A shock wave that forms on a sharp pointed object moving through the air at a speed greater than the speed of sound. Air passing through an inclined shock wave is slowed down, but if the wave angle is less than about 70° it still will be… …

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  • 7oblique shock wave — A shock wave that forms on a sharp pointed object moving through the air at a speed greater than the speed of sound. Air passing through an oblique shock wave is slowed down but if the wave angle is less than about 70°, it still will be… …

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  • 8Mach angle — The acute angle between a weak shock wave and a free stream airflow. Hence, at Mach 1, the Mach angle is 90°, and, thereafter, its value is equal to sin−1 × 1/M. It is represented by the symbol μ. See also Mach cone …

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  • 9Mach 1 —    , MACH NUMBER    When airplanes first started to fly, their speed was measured like that of a moving vehicle on the ground. As air speeds increased, that method became obsolete, and a new method had to be found.    Ernst Mach (1838 1916), an… …

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  • 10Midazolam — Systematic (IUPAC) name 8 chloro 6 (2 fluorophenyl) 1 methyl 4H imidazo[1,5 …

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