BlastData {MMAC}

Blast Radius of Trinity Test

Description

A dataset containing the blast radius (in meters) as a function of time (in seconds) for the Trinity test conducted by the United States in White Sands, New Mexico in 1945.

Usage

data(BlastData)

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following variables.

• X observation number

• time time in seconds

• radius radius of blast in meters

Details

A dataset containing the blast radius (in meters) as a function of time (in seconds) for the Trinity test conducted by the United States in White Sands, New Mexico in 1945.

Source

Taylor, G. “The Formation of a Blast Wave by a Very Intense Explosion. II. The Atomic Explosion of 1945.” Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 1950, 201: 175–86.

Examples

data(BlastData)