Paper 2, Section II, 38B
Part II, 2011
A uniform elastic solid with wavespeeds and occupies the region . An -wave with displacement
is incident from on a rigid boundary at . Find the form and amplitudes of the reflected waves.
When is the reflected -wave evanescent? Show that if the -wave is evanescent then the amplitude of the reflected -wave has the same magnitude as the incident wave, and interpret this result physically.