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The isotropic layer

Although the formalism extends to velocity anisotropy, it is informative to look at the isotropic case. Most of the results will not be new, but it is a check on the general theory and a link to the familiar. Starting with the basic time/offset equation tx2 = t02 + x2/v2, the equations for time, offset, and velocity as functions of p are

\begin{displaymath}
t(p) = \frac{t_{0}}{\sqrt{1-v^{2}p^{2}}}\end{displaymath}

and

\begin{displaymath}
x(p) = \frac{v^{2}pt_{0}}{\sqrt{1-v^{2}p^{2}}}\end{displaymath}

and

v(p) = v


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Stanford Exploration Project
11/16/1997