Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2005/iii/paper-82/4/a/solution

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 give
The traction formulas follow from and , using and . The velocity matrix has determinant , so elimination gives the P-SV directional impedance matrix
Its off-diagonal entries are real and antisymmetric. Therefore
With real-part phasors, the outward flux is , so
for 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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