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Reflection of Sound Pulses

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Acoustics of Layered Media I

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Wave Phenomena ((SSWAV,volume 5))

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In preceeding chapters we studied the reflection of monochromatic waves. Such waves are an idealization. This chapter is aimed to show how the previously obtained results can be applied to waves with arbitrary time dependence.

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Brekhovskikh, L.M., Godin, O.A. (1990). Reflection of Sound Pulses. In: Acoustics of Layered Media I. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52369-4_5

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