A year? Almost a year? For me, my last post was less than a day ago. I am lost, quite lost in this maelstrom. This is all foolhardiness, all vain, idiotic hubris. I may never manage to return. Send my love to my family.
Please, anyone, contact me if you know of any way in which I can resolve this. Things have gone so terribly, terribly wrong.
Ah, Southey! I was wondering when you'd be in touch.I'm sorry to hear of your predicament. As we know, to be completely reversible the process must be adiabatic and quasi-static, so presumably there is some leakage of heat (unlikely) or the bow shock was rather larger than we anticipated. If we knew what the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions were exactly, then perhaps...
ReplyDeleteThe Rayleigh line? Surely that is the way out...
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