 Evanescent reflected P-wave at a rigid plane (source code)

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= Evanescent reflected P-wave at a rigid plane
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For incident SV angle $\theta$, tangential phase matching gives $\sin\phi=(c_P/c_S)\sin\theta$ for the reflected P-wave. It is evanescent when $\sin\theta>c_S/c_P$.

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