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Ballistics, 2nd Edition
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Ballistics, 2nd Edition

by Donald E. Carlucci, Sidney S. Jacobson
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
608 pages
21h 36m
English
CRC Press
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424 Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition
A jump as described in the previous paragraph will take place through the formation
of a shock wave and proceed along what is called a Rayleigh line. The equation of the
Rayleigh line is derived by a combination of the mass and momentum equations and, for
convenience, setting u
0
= 0. This results in
pp
U
v
U
v
v
10
0
2
−−
=
2
0
2
1
(16.23)
The slope of the Rayleigh line is then
slope=
0
2
0
2
U
v
U
2
2
=
ρ
(16.24)
Recall from thermodynamics that the area under a pv diagram represents the work done
on or by the system. Then if we shock a system up a Rayleigh line and allow it to relax
along the Hugoniot, the net ...
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