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The 12 pages that link to Shear modulus, each with the reason it gives.

• Shear stressRelated: It describes how strongly a material resists the deformation caused by shear stress.

• Young's modulusCompared with: It measures resistance to shape change by shear, rather than axial stretching.

• P wavesRelated: Together with compressibility and density, it governs P-wave speed in solids.

• Elastic modulusBroader topic: It quantifies resistance to shape change under tangential loading.

• S-waveRelated: It determines whether a material can support S-waves and helps set their speed.

• Poisson's ratioRelated: It combines with Poisson's ratio to describe an isotropic material's elastic deformation.

• Elasticity (physics)Broader topic: It predicts resistance to shape changes such as twisting.

• Seismic momentRelated: Rock rigidity enters the seismic-moment calculation as the shear modulus.

• Seismic velocityRelated: It and density set shear-wave speed in an isotropic solid.

• Bulk modulusCompared with: It captures shape-changing stiffness, complementing bulk modulus's resistance to volume change.

• Love waveRelated: It helps determine the speed of the horizontally polarized motion in each layer.

• Stokes's law of sound attenuationCompared with: Unlike a solid's shear modulus, fluid viscosity describes dissipative resistance rather than elastic storage.