12.201 / 12.501 Essentials of Geophysics, Fall 2004
Surface and nodal patterns of free oscillations. (Image by MIT OCW.)
课程重点
This course features a full set of lecture notes and assignments.
课程描述
This course is designed to be a survey of the various subdisciplines of geophysics (geodesy, gravity, geomagnetism, seismology, and geodynamics) and how they might relate to or be relevant for other planets. No prior background in Earth sciences is assumed, but students should be comfortable with vector calculus, classical mechanics, and potential field theory.
Technical Requirements
MATLAB® software is required to run the .m files found on this course site.
