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Jake DAprile
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- Im trying to understand how a wave traveling behind a shock wave can catch up to that wave, such as in a blast.
I was in an argument about a jet engine and I was arguing that since there is a cutoff in terminology what would kill someone approaching a engine is not technically sound, but a shock wave, (I'm probably wrong about this, but that's not the question). That got me wondering how waves can catch up to each other and amplify such as in a blast. I'm studying chemistry, not physics, so forgive me if half of this is wrong.