Title

Domino waves

Authors

Authors

C. J. Efthimiou;M. D. Johnson

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Abbreviated Journal Title

SIAM Rev.

Keywords

dominoes; waves; modeling; mechanics; Mathematics, Applied

Abstract

Motivated by a proposal of Daykin [Problem 71-19*, SIAM Rev., 13 (1971) pp. 569-570], we study the wave that propagates along an infinite chain of dominoes and find the limiting speed of the wave in an extreme case.

Journal Title

Siam Review

Volume

49

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

111

Last Page

120

WOS Identifier

WOS:000244514000010

ISSN

0036-1445

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