5B FIRST-ORDER QUASILINEAR SYSTEMS and the characteristic directions on the shock y = z/2 have slope zero in y < z/2 and unity in y > 2/2, as in Fig. 2.11. They are therefore both outgoing so that k = 2 > n-1,; the causality condition rejects this solution (we could indeed construct many such inadmissible shocks). In fact, this argument applies to all the weak solutions that we could find that satisfy the Rankine-Hugoniot relations with a shock of non-zero strength. Hence there are no causal discontinuous solutions and the continuous solution 0, y0, = 2. baa { y<0. (2.48) A solution, indeed the only one satisfying the Rankine-Hugoniot relations, is undo ¥> 2/2, (UL a <2/ the characteristic directions on the shock have slope zero in y > 2/2 and unity in y < 2/2, as in Fig. 2.12. They are therefore both incoming, that is they both intersect z = 0, and hence k = 0. Thus k = n — 1 and this is indeed the unique appropriate causal solution. This example paves the way for a more complete discussion of gasdynamic shock waves, The models (2.3)-(2.7) are already in conservation form and the jump conditions determined from (2.45) represent the well-known Rankine-Hugoniot y Fig. 2.11 Solution of (2.46) and (2.47) with too many outgoing characteristics.