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Why does the shock front create a boom?
[edit]I know that a supersonic aircraft generates a sonic boom. The graphic adjacent to " Perception, noise, and other concerns" states:
"... When v = c, the sonic boom is visible. When v > c, the Mach cone is visible." What aspect of the sonic boom "is visible"? Geometrically, the line of the shock wave it is the locus of the tangent to the circles representing the range of the sound from the plane at points along its trajectory.
I don't think the article explains the relationship between that line and the creation of the "boom" (or, the N-wave described in reference[1])
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