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The author dedicates this book to readers who are concerned with finding out the status of concepts, statements and hypotheses, and with clarifying and rearranging them in a logical order, in words of Mario Bunge. It is thus not intended to teach tools and techniques of the trade, but to discuss the foundations on which seismology - and in a larger sense, the theory of wave propagation in solids - is built. A key questions is: why and to what extent can a theory developed for an elastic continuum be used to investigate the propagation of waves in the Earth, which is neither a continuum nor fully elastic? But the scrutiny of the foundations goes much deeper: material symmetry, effective tensors, equivalent media; the influence (lack thereof) of gravitational and thermal effects and the rotation of the Earth, are discussed ab initio.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Physics Classical mechanics

• Full title: Waves And Rays In Seismology: Answers To Unasked Questions
• Author: Michael A. Slawinski
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 404
• EAN: 9789814644808
• ISBN: 9814644803
• ID: 09248790
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 157 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. September 2016

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