GG 5210/6211, Seismology I 2006

AUTUMN SEMESTER

TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE

Note: The schedule can change depending on progress of class. Exams will be closed book, open mind.

Week 1 (23-25 Aug)--Organizing and fixing course conflicts, overview and explanation of course objectives and introduction to vectors and tensors, tensorial symbols.

Week 2 (28 Aug- 30 Aug), Definitions of stress, stress on a plane, traction vs. stress at a point, Cauchy's equations. Explanation of Matlab.

Week 3 (4 Sept- 6 Sept)--Three-dimensional stress formulation with tensors, stress transformations, eigenvalue solutions for principal stresses, lithospheric stress, criteria for maximum shear stress, and stress tensor invariants.

Labor Day holiday is 4 September

Week 4 (11 Sept-13 Sept) -- Coulomb-Navier failure criteria, Mohr's circle, stress fields in one- and two-dimensions, faulting in the earth, the Earth's stress field, and stress field inversion.

Week 5 (18 Sept-20 Sept) -- Deformation and strain, finite and infinitesimal strain tensors, displacement gradients and deformation tensors.

Week 6 (25 Sept.– 27 Sept) – Finite strain in the Earth, constitutive equations, and elastic modulii. 1st hour exam

Week 7 (2 Oct –4 Oct) -- Review of Earth processes –

Fall Break is 5-6 October

Week 8 (9 Oct– 11 Oct) -- Plasticity and visco-elasticity, rheological properties of Earth, power law creep.

Week 9 (16 Oct – 18 Oct) -- Equations of motion, compatibility equations and biharmonic equations, examples of stress solutions by biharmonic equations.

Week 10 (23 Oct-25 Oct) –Geodynamics and review;

Week 11 (30 Oct. - 1 Nov) –. Introduction to wave equations, dynamic wave equations, solutions to elastic wave solutions in different coordinate systems. 2nd 1-hr exam

Week 12 (6 Nov.-8 Nov) -- Fermat's principal and Snell's law, elastic wave transmission properties, reflection and refraction--energy partition at boundaries ,

Week 13 (13 Nov.-15 Nov) -- Asymptotic ray theory, general traveltime expressions for reflection and refracted waves, application of ray theory on computers,

Week 14 (20 Nov.-22 Nov) -- Zoeppritz's equations and related computer programs

Thanksgiving recess Nov 22-24

Week 15 (27 Nov –29 Nov) – Wave amplitudes from ray theory

Week 16 (4 Dec - 6 Dec.) Project Presentations and review

Week 17 (11 Dec - 13 Dec.) Final Exam Week