Talk:Mach number
From Academic Kids
- When an aircraft exceeds Mach 1 a large pressure difference is created just in front of the aircraft. This pressure difference, called a shock wave, spreads backward and outward from the aircraft in a cone shape. It is this shock wave that causes the sonic boom heard as fast moving aircraft travels over head.
What was wrong with this paragraph, and how can it be fixed? AxelBoldt 00:27 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC)
Removed warp speed reference. It's not correct even in the ST universe. Roadrunner 17:58, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Speeds
Wanting opinions before making an edit I'm unsure of: Would it be beneficial to list, on the table, speeds (in kph, or mph, or m/s, or whatever) corresponding to each Mach number at typical temperatures and pressures? -FZ 22:21, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I'm for creating a simple, small table of mach numbers at sea level and standard operational temperatures. If I were a middle or high school kid looking up mach numbers, I'd probably expect to find something like that on this page. --ABQCat 00:26, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Images
I think that the images on this page are terrifically illuminating and valuable, but they are all taken from http://www.kurssit.lut.fi/040301000/main/11_3_2.html. User:Prkl75 added the images to Wikipedia and this article. There may be some copyright issues (despite the claim on the image pages), so if anyone happens to have some images that would work for this page in place of those aleady in use, I think that would be good. --ABQCat 00:50, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
