Longitudinal wave and seismic P-waves (created by earthquakes and explosions). In longitudinal waves, the displacement of the medium is parallel to the propagation of the wave, and waves can be either straight or round. A wave along the length of a stretched Slinky toy, where the distance between coils increases and decreases, is a good visualization. In the case of longitudinal harmonic sound waves, the frequency and wavelength can be described by the formula where: The quantity "x"/"c" is the time that the wave takes to travel the distance "x". The ordinary frequency ("f") of the wave is given by The wavelength
Coda Wave Interferometry The unperturbed travel time is given by formula_8 where formula_9 is the coda wave velocity. The perturbed travel time is formula_10 where formula_11 is the velocity perturbation. Thus formula_12 . If the relative velocity perturbation is assumed constant, then formula_13 where t is the center time of the employed time window. Thus, the travel time perturbation depends on the arrival time of the coda wave, but not of the particular path followed. Coda Wave Interferometry Coda Wave Interferometry is an ultrasound technique for detection of weak and local changes in complex inhomogeneous media. Sound waves that travel through a medium