Jeff Freymueller: GEOS 602 Geophysical Fields

Professor

Day

Date

Lecture Topic

Thu

Jan 21

Gravity 1: What is a field?, Mathematical properties of scalar and vector fields, Potential and field, Newtonian Attraction;
Homework: PROBLEM SET 1 assigned, due Tue February 2.

Thu

Jan 26

NO CLASS

Thu

Jan 28

Gravity 2: Measurements of gravity, Potential of an arbitrary 3D body, Potential of a sphere

Tue

Feb 2

Gravity 3: MacCullough's formula, Earth's gravity field;
Homework: PROBLEM SET 2 assigned, due Tue February 9.

Thu

Feb 4

Gravity 4: The Geoid, Shape of the Earth, Introduction to orthogonal functions

Tue

Feb 9

Gravity 5: Spherical Harmonics, Application to the global gravity field;
Homework: PROBLEM SET 3 assigned, due Tue February 16.

Thu

Feb 11

Gravity 6: Satellite Measurements of the Gravity Field and gravity change

Tue

Feb 16

Gravity 7: More gravity change and spherical harmonics, Tides;
Homework: PROBLEM SET 4 assigned, due Tue February 23.

Thu

Feb 18

Gravity 8: Gravity surveys, Gravity Anomalies, Examples of gravity anomalies from the real world.

Tue

Feb 23

Gravity 9: Modeling gravity anomalies, Attraction of special mass distributions, Excess mass, Green's equivalent layer, Sinusoidally-varying topography;
Homework: PROBLEM SET 5 assigned, due Thu March 4.

Thu

Feb 25

NO CLASS

Tue

Mar 2

Gravity 10: Compensation, Isostasy, Isostatic Anomalies, Gravity and lithospheric flexure
Homework: PROBLEM SET 6 assigned, due Tue March 23.

Thu

Mar 4

Gravity 11: Fourier methods, Upward and downward continuation.

Tue

Mar 9

SPRING BREAK!!

Thu

Mar 11

SPRING BREAK!!

Tue

Mar 16

Gravity 12: Fourier methods, Application of Fourier methods to compensation

Thu

Mar 18

Magnetics 1: Electricity and magnetism, Electric and magnetic fields, Magnetic field of the Earth, IGRF

Tue

Mar 23

Magnetics 2: The dipole and non-dipole fields, Magnetization, Magnetic anomalies
Homework: PROBLEM SET 7 assigned, due Tue March 30.

Thu

Mar 25

Magnetics 3: Magnetization, Modeling magnetic anomalies, Total field anomaly

Tue

Mar 30

Magnetics 4: Reduction to the pole, Examples of magnetic anomaly maps, How rocks get their magnetization, Paleomagnetism, Magnetic reversals and history of Earth's magnetic field
Homework: PROBLEM SET 8 assigned, due Thu April 8.

Thu

Apr 1

Magnetics 5: Paleoinclination and declination, Spherical trig and statistics of directions, Paleomagnetism and plate tectonics

Tue

Apr 6

Initial Presentation of Final Project Topics

Thu

Apr 8

Heat Flow 1: Heat transfer, Fourier's Law, Heat flow in the Earth
Homework: PROBLEM SET 9 assigned, due Thu April 15.

Tue

Apr 13

Heat Flow 2: Heat sources within the Earth and the geothermal gradient, Conduction

Thu

Apr 15

Heat Flow 3: Conduction on a sphere, 1D time-dependent conduction
Homework: PROBLEM SET 10 assigned, due Thu April 22. It's the last one!

Tue

Apr 20

Heat Flow 4: Heating or cooling of a semi-infinite half-space, Cooling of oceanic crust

Thu

Apr 22

Heat Flow 5: Advection

Tue

Apr 27

Progress Reports on Final Projects

Thu

Apr 29

Heat Flow 6: The Stefan problem and phase changes

Tue

Apr 27

Heat Flow 7: Thermal stresses, mantle adiabats

Thu

Apr 29

Heat Flow 8: Convection