hugoniot

Updated: May 28, 2025

M. Violle has published an important series of experiments on the speed of propagation of very condensed waves, on the deformations of these waves, and on the relations of the speed and the pressure, which verify in a remarkable manner the results foreshadowed by the already old calculations of Riemann, repeated later by Hugoniot.

Lucien Poincaré - The New Physics and Its Evolution