Shape of a Cracking Whip

Overview

Journal Phys Rev Lett

Publisher American Physical Society

Specialty Biophysics

Date 2002 Jun 13

PMID 12059302

Citations 8

Authors

Alain Goriely

Tyler McMillen

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Abstract

The crack of a whip is produced by a shock wave created by the supersonic motion of the tip of the whip in the air. A simple dynamical model for the propagation and acceleration of waves in the motion of whips is presented. The respective contributions of tension, tapering, and boundary conditions in the acceleration of an initial impulse are studied theoretically and numerically.

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