Physics of Explosions - a seminar on blast waves

Seminar on the mathematical description of blast waves and the application of the results to data from chemical, nuclear, and thermonuclear explosions. Content based on: - Explosion analysis from images: Trinity and Beirut - Blast wave kinematics: theory, experiments, and applications 0:00 Speaker introduction 1:25 Introduction 3:13 G.I. Taylor and the Trinity test 11:51 Beirut explosion 17:28 Mathematics of explosion physics 29:30 Experiments & applications 39:58 Summary 41:05 Q&A 52:04 Mushroom & Wilson clouds