| Preface to the Dover Edition Editors' Foreword Preface to the English Edition Preface to the First Russian Edition Preface to the Second Russian Edition | |
| Elements of gasdynamics and the classical theory of shock waves | |
| Continuous flow of an inviscid nonconducting gas | |
| The equations of gasdynamics | |
| Lagrangian coordinates | |
| Sound waves | |
| Spherical sound waves | |
| Characteristics | |
| Plane isentropic flow | |
| Riemann Invariants | |
| Plane isentropic gas flow in a bounded region | |
| Simple waves | |
| Distortion of the wave form in a traveling wave of finite amplitude | |
| Some properties of simple waves | |
| The rarefaction wave | |
| The centered rarefaction wave as an example of self-similar gas motion | |
| On the impossibility of the existence of a centered compression wave | |
| Shock waves | |
| Introduction to the gasdynamics of shock waves | |
| Hugoniot curves | |
| Shock waves in a perfect gas with constant specific heats | |
| Geometric interpretation of the laws governing compression shocks | |
| Impossibility of rarefaction shock waves in a fluid with normal thermodynamic properties | |
| Weak shock waves | |
| Shock waves in a fluid with anomalous thermodynamic properties | |
| Viscosity and heat conduction in gasdynamics | |
| Equations of one-dimensional gas flow | |
| Remarks on the second viscosity coefficient | |
| Remarks on the absorption of sound | |
| The structure and thickness of a weak shock front | |
| Various problems | |
| Propagation of an arbitrary discontinuity | |
| Strong explosion in a homogeneous atmosphere | |
| Approximate treatment of a strong explosion | |
| Remarks on the point explosion with counterpressure | |
| Sudden isentropic expansion of a spherical gas cloud into vacuum | |
| Conditions for the self-similar sudden expansion of a gas cloud into vacuum | |
| Thermal radiation and radiant heat exchange in a medium | |
| Introduction and basic concepts | |
| Mechanisms of emission, absorption, and scattering of light in gases | |
| Equilibrium radiation and the concept of a perfect black body | |
| Induced emission | |
| Induced emission of radiation in the classical and quantum theories and the laser effect | |
| The radiative transfer equation | |
| Integral expressions for the radiation intensity | |
| Radiation fromm a plane layer | |
| The brightness temperature of the surface of a nonuniformly heated body | |
| Motion of a fluid taking into account radiant heat exchange | |
| The diffusion approximation | |
| The "forward-reverse" approximation | |
| Local equilibrium and the approximation of radiation heat conduction | |
| Relationship between the diffusion approximation and the radiation heat conduction approximation | |
| Radiative equilibrium in stellar photospheres | |
| Solution to the plane photosphere problem | |
| Radiation energy losses of a heated body | |
| Hydrodynamic equations accounting for radiation energy and pressure and radiant heat exchange | |
| The number of photons as an invariant of the classical electromagnetic field | |
| Thermodynamic properties of gases at high temperatures | |
| Gas of noninteracting particles | |
| Perfect gas with constant specific heats and invariant number of particles | |
| Calculation of thermodynamic functions using partition functions | |
| Dissociation of diatomic molecules | |
| Chemical reactions | |
| Ionization and electronic excitation | |
| The electronic partition function and the role of the excitation energy of atoms | |
| Approximate methods of calculation in the region of multiple ionization | |
| Interpolation formulas and the effective adiabatic exponent | |
| The Hugoniot curve with dissociation and ionization | |
| The Hugoniot relations with equilibrium radiation | |
| Gases with Coulomb interactions | |
| Rarefied ionized gases | |
| Dense gases | |
| Elements of F | |
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