The study and analysis of dispersed surface waves is aimed at a knowledge of (1) the structure of the medium through which the waves are being propagated, and (2) the mechanism of the souce which radiates the disturbance into this medium. A general survey of the different methods of analysis starting from observed data is first presented, with special emphasis on direct methods for obtaining the structure of the medium. These are the use of the WKB-approximation, and a high-speed iterative computation procedure. The use of Fourier analysis is also discussed, and examples shown based on data from natural and from artificial disturbances.
Contents are:
1. General view of the study on dispersive surface waves.
2. Indirect method of determining structure.
3. Direct method for structure determination.
4. Spectral distribution and absorption by Fourier analysis.
5. Phase velocity by Fourier analysis.
6. Computation of motion.
7. Effect of seismographs.
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