Surface and nodal patterns of free oscillations. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Robert Van Der Hilst
MIT Course Number
12.201 / 12.501
As Taught In
Fall 2004
Level
Undergraduate / Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
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.