Thanks, awe inspiring video!
>When you compress a gas it heats up, and eventually the compression is so violent that that air heats up enough to start vaporizing the booster.
I don't think this is an accurate description of what happens on re-entry.
>When you compress a gas it heats up, and eventually the compression is so violent that that air heats up enough to start vaporizing the booster.
I don't think this is an accurate description of what happens on re-entry.
I don't know about vaporizing the booster though. It sure gets hot.
If we're being pedantic (and I don't mean that pejoratively), this would have been more correct if you'd left out "adiabatic". If gasdynamic compression heating is being induced by a fast-moving body in the open atmosphere, it's not strictly adiabatic.