Course Syllabus

Class Meets MWF, 8:30-9:20 am in Geology 310

Assignments:

Due 19 October at 8:30 AM: Assignment 1 Note you'll also need these: PREM & Romanowicz 2008 Due Friday 13 November at 8:30 AM: Exam I! You'll also need the file: PREM.dat Due 18 December at 5:00 PM: Final Exam You'll also need the file: raytrace.m

PowerPoint Lectures

31 August: Introduction to Concepts of Seismology 2 September: Seismic Applications: Source Characterization 4 September: Seismic Applications: Subsurface Imaging; the Seismogram 9 September: A Brief Overview of Seismology (Wave types) 11 September: A Brief Overview of Seismology (Huygen's/Fermat's Principles; Snell's Law) 14 September: Math/Notation "Review": Vectors 16 September: Math/Notation Cont'd: Derivatives 18 September: Math/Notation Cont'd: Complex Variables, Tensors, Stress 21 September: The Stress Tensor 23 September: The Strain Tensor 25 September: Strain & Hooke's Law 28 September: Equations of Motion 30 September: P- and S-wave Equations; Velocity 2 October: Velocity, Displacement Potentials & Solution to the Wave Equation 5 October: Harmonic Wave Motion 7 October: Displacement Polarizations 9 October: Seismic Phases 12 October: The Ray Parameter; Seismic Structure as an Investigative Tool 14 October: Seismic Imaging Methods I 16 October: Seismic Imaging Methods II 19 October: Seismic Imaging Methods III; Wave Equation in Spherical Coordinates 21 October: Ray Theory 23 October: 1D Ray Theory Time and Distance 26 October: Ray Theory; Characterizing Seismic Sources 28 October: Seismic Sources 30 October: Seismic Sources; Reflection & Refraction Amplitudes (Vertically-Incident) 2 November: Reflection/Refraction Amplitudes (SH and Zoeppritz Equations) 4 November: AVO (Zoepppritz Application!) 6 November: Evanescent Waves 9 November: Surface Waves 11 November: Rayleigh Waves 13 November: Rayleigh displacements; Love Waves 16 November: Love Waves; Group & Phase Velocity 18 November: Group & Phase Velocity; Normal Modes 20 November: Normal Modes 23 November: Snell's Law and Ray-Tracing in Spherical Geometry 30 November: Anisotropy 2 December: Anisotropy (Cont'd); Amplitudes: Geometrical Spreading; Multipathing 4 December: Amplitudes: Multipathing, Scattering, Attenuation 7 December: Amplitudes: Intrinsic Attenuation; Refraction/Reflection Methods 9 December: Refraction Methods 11 December: Refraction Methods; Reflections