Course Syllabus

Class Meets TR, 9:00-10:15 am in Geology 308

Assignments:

Due 15 October at 9:00 AM: Assignment 1 Note you'll also need these: PREM & Romanowicz 2008 Due Tuesday 19 November at 9:00 AM: Exam I! You'll also need the file: PREM.dat Due 13 December at 5:00 PM: Final Exam You'll also need the file: raytrace.m

PowerPoint Lectures

Coming soon! 27 August: Introduction to Concepts of Seismology 29 August: Seismic Applications: Source Characterization; Subsurface Imaging 3 September: A Brief Overview of Seismology (Wave Types; Huygen's/Fermat's Principles; Snell's Law) 5 September: Math/Notation "Review": Vectors 10 September: Math/Notation Cont'd: Derivatives, Complex Variables, Tensors, Stress 12 September: The Stress Tensor 17 September: Strain, the Strain Tensor & Hooke's Law 19 September: The Equations of Motion: P- and S-wave Equations; Velocity 24 September: Velocity, Displacement Potentials & Solution to the Wave Equation 26 September: Solution to the Wave Equation; Harmonic Wave Motion; Displacement Polarizations 1 October: Displacement Polarizations; Seismic Phases 3 October: Seismic Phases; The Ray Parameter; Seismic Structure as an Investigative Tool 8 October: Seismic Imaging Methods 10 October: Seismic Imaging Methods 15 October: Seismic Imaging Methods III; Spherical Coordinates 17 October: Ray Theory; Ray-trace Modeling of Time and Distance 22 October: Ray Theory; Characterizing Seismic Sources 24 October: Seismic Sources 29 October: Reflection & Refraction Amplitudes 31 October: Applied Zoeppritz (AVO); Evanescent Waves; Surface Waves 5 November: Surface Waves; Rayleigh Waves 7 November: Rayleigh displacements; Love Waves 12 November: Love Waves; Group & Phase Velocity 14 November: Group & Phase Velocity; Normal Modes 19 November: Normal Modes 21 November: Snell's Law and Ray-Tracing in Spherical Geometry 26 November: Anisotropy 3 December: Anisotropy (Cont'd); Amplitudes: Spherical Geometrical Spreading 5 December: Amplitudes: Multipathing, Scattering, Attenuation