This. letter notes errors in the previous treatment of the problem of the reflection and transmission of acoustical waves at a boundary between two viscoelastic media. The validity of the corrections that are given is confirmed by the recovery of the solid/solid interface equations of Kolsky and by some experimental evidence.PACS numbers: 43.35.Mr, 43.20.Fn
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