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Domino Waves

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Abstract

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.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0707.2618,
  title  = {Domino Waves},
  author = {C. J. Efthimiou and M. D. Johnson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2618},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures

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