Waves And Rays In Seismology: Answers To Unasked Questions (Hardcover)

New Edition: Waves and Rays in Seismology (2nd Edition)'The book is self-contained; the appendices are very helpful. Anyone with some background in classical physics will be able to follow the developments in the book. Overall, I found the book to be an excellent read and I would recommend it to students and researchers in seismology.'The Leading EdgeThe 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. 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 question is: why and to what degree 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 (or, rather, the lack thereof) of gravitational and thermal effects and the rotation of the Earth, are discussed ab initio. The variational principles of Fermat and Hamilton and their consequences for the propagation of elastic waves, causality, Noether's theorem and its consequences on conservation of energy and conservation of linear momentum are but a few topics that are investigated in the process to establish seismology as a science and to investigate its relation to subjects like realism and empiricism in natural sciences, to the nature of explanations and predictions, and to experimental verification and refutation.

General

Imprint:	World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Michael A. Slawinski
Dimensions:	229 x 157 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
ISBN-13:	978-981-4644-80-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Structure & properties of the Earth > Volcanology & seismology
LSN:	981-4644-80-3
Barcode:	9789814644808

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