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Shock fronts were introduced in Sect. 1.6, for general systems of balance laws, and were placed in the context of BV solutions in Sect. 1.8. They were encountered again, briefly, in Sect. 3.1, where the governing Rankine-Hugoniot condition was recorded.
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Dafermos, C.M. (2016). Admissible Shocks. In: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Continuum Physics. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49451-6_8
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