Basic Geophysics: The Seismic Slowness

Why earthquake ray paths are curved?
Hammer seismics, ray parameter in the plane and spherical case.
A production of the Geophysical Institute (GPI) in collaboration with the Center for Technology-Enhanced Learning (ZML) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
German version: • Brückenkurs Geophysik:...

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Just letting you know that slowness curves have shown up in my research into spin waves, a very distant concept in relation to seismic waves. Thanks for the video!

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very good lecture, many thanks!