Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
Email:
knopoff@physics.ucla.edu
poster/oral: poster
| A Rayleigh wave is usually described as the solution to the mathematical problem of the determination of the eigenfunction of an elastic region with a free surface, with an eigenvalue that is one root of a cubic equation in the homogeneous case. The properties of Rayleigh waves on a homogeneous half-space are easily understood in terms of the deformation of elastic materials under stress without complex mathematics. |