To prove that the familiar 15, 45
, etc. wave extrapolators
are not frequency-dispersive, recall from chapter
that
the dispersion relations all have the
form
, where f is
a semicircle approximation, say, 15
or 45
.No dispersion relation of this form can be frequency-dispersive.
Performing the derivatives required by (29), you see that while the
(x,t)-coordinates of a wavefront depend on the dip angle
through the parameter
, they
do not depend explicitly on
.So any frequency dispersion observed in practice does
not arise from a 15
or 45
approximation.