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Large amplitude waves, or shocks, are the subject of this chapter. Shocks in neutral gases are briefly reviewed. MHD shocks are then treated in detail while a brief discussion of collisionless shocks is presented in the final section.
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It is customary to use \(P_2/P_1\) as a measure of the shock strength.
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In this formula and in the following ones in this Section we drop all factors containing \(\gamma \), typically of order one.
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Chiuderi, C., Velli, M. (2015). Shocks. In: Basics of Plasma Astrophysics. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5280-2_8
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