Abstract
A set of shock adiabats of molybdenum is constructed at various initial temperatures. It is shown that the dependence between shock velocity and particle velocity for Mo is nonlinear at high initial temperatures in a range of particle velocities 0.2<u<0.7 km/s. In a range of particle velocities 0.2 < u < 1.4 km/s the initial heating of molybdenum to 1000 K changes its shock adiabat approximately by 4%.