The problem of spherically symmetric wave propagation in homogeneous, isotropic elastic media of infinite extent has been examined frequently in recent years, and a number of analytical solutions have been reported in the literature for various initial conditions. Some interest has also been exhibited in the application of these relations to the transient phenomena occurring in metals when subjected to contact explosions. Under these conditions, an actual wave system can be approximated by postulating the existence of a spherical cavity in the interior of the medium and applying as the initial condition a pulse of exponentially decaying character. While no difficulty is encountered here in an analytic expression of the displacements, velocities and stresses occurring at each point of the medium as a function of location and time, it has been found highly desirable to represent these terms in pictorial form to permit a rapid evaluation of the nature of the disturbances in the region of interest. Consequently, numerical calculations have been performed on an IBM machine and the resultant data have been employed in a space‐time representation of these parameters.