Christopher Chapman

Fundamentals of Seismic Wave Propagation

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Produktbeschreibung

A graduate-level 2004 textbook introducing the theory of seismic wave propagation in acoustic, elastic and anisotropic media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1080g
• ISBN-13: 9780521894548
• ISBN-10: 0521894549
• Artikelnr.: 30205490

Autorenporträt

Christopher Chapman is a tutor at St Augustine's College of Theology in Canterbury. He was previously Spirituality Adviser for the Diocese of Southwark. He trained in spiritual direction at St Beuno's where he is often a guest retreat director.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preliminaries
Nomenclature
Symbols
Special functions
Canonical signals
1. Introduction
2. Basic wave propagation
3. Transforms
4. Review of continuum mechanics and elastic waves
5. Asymptotic ray theory
6. Rays at an interface
7. Differential systems for stratified media
8. Inverse transforms for stratified media
9. Canonical signals
10. Generalizations of ray theory
Appendix A. Useful integrals
Appendix B. Useful Fourier transforms
Appendix C. Ordinary differential equations
Appendix D. Saddle-point methods
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index.