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Domino Waves

Author: Efthimiou C. J.
Johnson M. D.
Publication venue: 'Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)'
Publication date: 01/03/2007
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Motivated by a proposal of Daykin (Problem 71-19*, SIAM Review 13 (1971) 569), we study the wave that propagates along an infinite chain of dominoes and find the limiting speed of the wave in an extreme case.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure

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