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The Rankine-Hugoniot condition, revisited in full

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Apply the Rankine-Hugoniot shock-speed formula to a general flux, including Burgers' equation's own simplified average-speed shortcut.

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The Rankine-Hugoniot condition, revisited in full
Partial Differential Equations

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rankine-hugoniot-condition required
weak-solutions-informally required

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Entropy conditions and admissible shocks required

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