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Download or read book Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2005 written by Michael D. Furnish and published by American Institute of Physics. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the Proceedings of the Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, Baltimore, Maryland USA, 2005. The volume embodies the most recent research on shock compression of condensed matter and includes 363 plenary, invited, and contributed papers, all peer-reviewed. Topics include: equations of state, phase transitions, chemical reactions, warm dense matter, fracture, geophysics and planetary science, energetic materials, optical studies, and more.