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New Edition: Waves and Rays in Seismology (2nd Edition)'The book is self-contained; the appendices are very helpful. Anyone with some background in classical physics will be able to follow the developments in the book. Overall, I found the book to be an excellent read and I would recommend it to students and researchers in seismology.'The Leading EdgeThe author dedicates this book to readers who are concerned with finding out the status of concepts, statements and hypotheses, and with clarifying and rearranging them in a logical order. It is thus not intended to teach tools and techniques of the trade, but to discuss the foundations on which seismology - and in a larger sense, the theory of wave propagation in solids - is built. A key question is: why and to what degree can a theory developed for an elastic continuum be used to investigate the propagation of waves in the Earth, which is neither a continuum nor fully elastic. But the scrutiny of the foundations goes much deeper: material symmetry, effective tensors, equivalent media; the influence (or, rather, the lack thereof) of gravitational and thermal effects and the rotation of the Earth, are discussed ab initio. The variational principles of Fermat and Hamilton and their consequences for the propagation of elastic waves, causality, Noether's theorem and its consequences on conservation of energy and conservation of linear momentum are but a few topics that are investigated in the process to establish seismology as a science and to investigate its relation to subjects like realism and empiricism in natural sciences, to the nature of explanations and predictions, and to experimental verification and refutation.

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Author:   Michael A Slawinski (Memorial Univ, Canada)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9789814644808

ISBN 10:   9814644803
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   22 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Science of Seismology; Seismology and Continuum Mechanics; Seismology and Hookean Solids; Waves within Hookean Solids; Gravitational and Thermal Aspects in Seismology; Variational Principles; Seismology as Science;

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