Course Syllabus

Class Meets MWF, 1:30-2:20 pm in Geology 217a

Assignments: Coming soon!

Due 27 February at 1:30 PM: Assignment 1 Note you'll also need these: PREM & Romanowicz 2008 Due Monday 20 March at 1:30 PM: Exam I! Due 17 April at 1:30 PM: Assignment 2 Due 3 May at 3:30 PM: Final Exam

PowerPoint Lectures and UPDATED Schedule: Coming soon!

9 January: Introduction to Concepts of Seismology 11 January: Seismic Applications: Source Characterization; Subsurface Imaging 13 January: A Brief "Review" of Seismology (Wave types, Huygen's Principle) 18 January: A Brief "Review" of Seismology (Huygen's/Fermat's Principles; Snell's Law) 20 January: Math/Notation "Review": Vectors 25 January: Math/Notation Cont'd: Derivatives, Complex Variables, Tensors 27 January: The Stress Tensor 30 January: The Strain Tensor & Hooke's Law 1 February: Equations of Motion 3 February: The Wave Equation & Velocity 6 February: Displacement Potentials and Solution of the Wave Eqn 8 February: Displacement Polarizations; Seismic Phases 06 February: Seismic Phases; Seismic Structure as an Investigative Tool 13 February: Seismic Imaging Methods I 15 February: Seismic Imaging Methods II 17 February: Seismic Imaging Methods III 21 February: Wave Equation in Spherical Coordinates 22 February: Ray Theory; 1D Ray Theory Time and Distance 24 February: Characterizing Seismic Sources 27 February: Reflections & Refraction Amplitudes (Vertically-Incident P) 1 March: Reflections, Refractions, and Zoeppritz Equations 3 March: AVO (Zoepppritz Application!); Evanescent Waves 13 March: Evanescent Waves; Surface Waves 15 March: Surface Waves; Rayleigh Waves 17 March: Rayleigh Waves 20 March: Love Waves 22 March: Love Waves; Group & Phase Velocity 24 March: Normal Modes 27 March: Normal Modes 29 March: Refraction/Reflection Methods 31 March: Refraction Methods 3 April: Reflection Methods (Travel-Time) 5 April: Reflection Methods (Dix Equations; Dipping Layer; Tau-P) 7 April: Reflection Methods (Tau-P; Data Gathers) 10 April: Reflection Methods (Processing of Seismic Sections) 12 April: Reflection Processing 14 April: Snell's Law and Ray-Tracing in Spherical Geometry 17 April: Structure of the Earth's Deep Interior 19 April: Anisotropy 21 April: Anisotropy (Cont'd) 24 April: Anisotropy (Cont'd); Amplitudes: Geometrical Spreading 26 April: Amplitudes: Multipathing, Scattering 28 April: Amplitudes: Intrinsic Attenuation