 Snell law for elastic and acoustic waves (source code)

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= Snell law for elastic and acoustic waves
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Phase matching at a planar interface preserves frequency and tangential wavenumber. Thus waves of speeds $c_j$ and angles $\theta_j$ from the normal satisfy
$$
\frac{\sin\theta_j}{c_j}=\text{constant}.
$$

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