We study the propagation of plane waves in an unbounded body of a saturated
ferromagnetoelastic solid. The equations by Tiersten for small fields
superposed on finite initial fields in a saturated ferromagnetoelastic material
are employed, with their quasistatic magnetic field extended to dynamic
electric and magnetic fields for electromagnetic waves. Dispersion relations of
the plane waves are obtained. The cutoff frequencies and long wave
approximation of the dispersion curves are determined. Results show that
acoustic, electromagnetic and magnetic spin waves are coupled in such a
material. For YIG which is a cubic crystal without piezoelectric coupling, the
acoustic and electromagnetic waves are not directly coupled but they can still
interact indirectly through spin waves