Transient Waves in Layered Media

Pictorial Guide to Transient Waves and Time Symmetry. Introduction. 1. Plane Waves in Full Space. 2. Point-Source Representations and Transient Responses from an Acoustic Planar Interface. 3. Time-Symmetric Point-Source Response from a Planar Acoustic Interface. 4. Analysis of Reflection and Transmission Responses. 5. Transient Line-Source Response from a Planar Acoustic Interface. 6. Transient Plane-Wave Propagation in a Stack of Acoustic Layers. 7. Point-Source Response of a Stack of Layers. 8. Point Source within a Stack of Layers. 9. Line Source within a Stack of Layers. 10. Zero-Offset Point-Source Response: Geometrical Optics Expansion. 11. Multilayer Plane-Wave Decomposition. 12. Free Elastic Surface Point-Source Response. 13. Living in a Complex World. 14. Analytic Signals and Integral Transforms. Appendices: A. Specification of Fundamental Square-Root Function. B. Some Properties of the D-Function. C. Contribution of Inhomogeneous Waves in the Transient Weyl Integral. D. Properties of the Analytic Square-Root Potential. References. Index.