Timing/Location: Tu/Thurs from 10:00 to 11:45 in E&MS D258
Course Goals: To provide a quantitative, graduate-level investigation of the physical processes controlling the deformation and response of planetary bodies at different time- and length-scales.
Texts: The two most useful textbooks are Turcotte and Schubert, Geodynamics, 2nd ed., CUP, 2002, and Kennett and Bunge, Geophysical Continua, CUP, 2008. Reference will also be made to the primary literature.
(Approximate) Course Outline
Week 1 (29 Mar): Heat transfer. Notes
- Problem Set #1 Answers
- Suggested additional problems in T&S: 4-16, 4-30, 4-33, 4-39
Week 2 (5 Apr): Elasticity and flexure. Notes
- Problem Set #2
- Suggested additional problems in T&S: 3-19, 3-22
Week 3 (12 Apr): Rheology & viscoelasticity. Notes.
- Problem Set #3 Answers
- Suggested additional problems in T&S: 7-18, 7-19
Week 4 (19 Apr): Gravity & potential field theory. Notes. More notes.
- Problem Set #4 Answers
- Suggested additional problems in T&S: 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 5-13, 5-19
Week 5 (26 Apr): Gravity (concluded). Tides.
Week 6 (3 May): Fluid dynamics. Notes.
- Problem Set #6 Answers
- Suggested additional problems in T&S: 6-4, 6-10, 6-12, 6-15, 6-23, 6-26
Week 7 (10 May): Fluid dynamics (cont’d).
Week 8 (17 May): Convection. Notes.
Week 9 (24 May): Permeable Flow. Notes. FN away Tues
Week 10 (31 May): Recap and applications. Notes.
- Order of magnitude pages.