Open AccessOn the Frequency Independence of the Acoustic Loss Factor in Earth Materials
Author(s) -
WESTON D. E.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1963.tb06293.x
Subject(s) - independence (probability theory) , loss factor , geology , factor (programming language) , similarity (geometry) , frequency dependence , geophysics , acoustics , physics , mathematics , statistics , computer science , nuclear magnetic resonance , artificial intelligence , dielectric , image (mathematics) , optoelectronics , programming language
Summary Rocks have an acounstic loss factor which is independent of frequency and this is difficult to explain theoretically. It may be significant that unconsolidated sediments have numerically similar loss, again frequency independent. A relationship to the principle of similarity for explosions is pointed out.