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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 82 4 a Solution by
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Use the displacement-potential convention , and harmonic dependence . Choosing the opposite sign for the shear potential changes its column sign but not the P-SV directional impedance matrix. Write , , , and . At a common point the forward potential wave amplitudes giveThe traction formulas follow from and , using and . The velocity matrix has determinant , so elimination gives the P-SV directional impedance matrixIts off-diagonal entries are real and antisymmetric. ThereforeWith real-part phasors, the outward flux is , sofor every nonzero forward displacement field. Mass density and angular frequency are essential to this flux coefficient; both appear correctly in the PDF.
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