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.