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When you finish reading this chapter, you should be able to:
■ Appreciate the consequences of compressibility in gas flow
■ Understand why a nozzle must have a diverging section to accelerate a gas to supersonic speeds
■ Predict the occurrence of shocks and calculate property changes across a shock wave
■ Understand the effects of friction and heat transfer on compressible flows







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