4.II B
Part II, 2008
A layer of rock of shear modulus and shear wave speed occupies the region with a free surface at . A second rock having shear modulus and shear wave speed occupies . Show that elastic waves of wavenumber and phase speed can propagate in the layer with zero disturbance at if and satisfies the dispersion relation
Show graphically, or otherwise, that this equation has at least one real solution for any value of , and determine the smallest value of for which the equation has at least two real solutions.