Solution

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Applying to the shearing-wave ansatz produces an extra phase term
The perturbation equations have spatially uniform amplitude coefficients only when this term vanishes. Hence
For , the radial wavenumber changes linearly. A leading disturbance with first opens until , then becomes an increasingly tightly wound trailing disturbance with . This is the geometric swing of a shearing wave.

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