Course Name
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Turkish |
Yer Fiziği
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| English |
Physics of the Earth |
Course Code
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JEF 205E |
Credit |
Lecture
(hour/week) |
Recitation
(hour/week) |
Laboratory
(hour/week) |
| Semester |
3
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3 |
3 |
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| Course Language |
English |
| Course Coordinator |
Emine Aysun Güney
Emine Aysun Güney
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| Course Objectives |
1. Having knowledge about the geophysical parameters of the Earth’s interior to understand how events are interrelated and integrate them with the previous knowledge from various courses and find many potential solutions to a given problem,
2. Improve the students’ ability to encourage the life-long learning of
the new concepts and applications of profession.
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| Course Description |
The scope of this course includes the origin of Universe, Solar System and planets, composition of Sun and planets, the shape and rotation of the Earth and the geophysical parameters of the Earth’s interior and their relations to
the geological processes.
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| Course Outcomes |
Students who pass the course will be able to;
I. Have knowledge about the geophysical parameters of the Earth’s interior to understand how events are interrelated and integrate them with
the previous knowledge from various courses and find many potential solutions to a given problem,
II. Improve the analytical skills of students by using inter-relationships among the problems and issues of the earth science,
III. Improve the life-long learning skills of the new concepts and their applications of the profession. |
| Pre-requisite(s) |
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| Required Facilities |
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| Other |
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| Textbook |
Carlson, D. H., Plummer, C. C., Hammersley, L., 2011, Physical Geology, Mac Graw Hill Press, pp. 645, ISBN 978-0-07-122184-9 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QE 28.2 .C37)
Lillie, R.J., 1999, Whole Earth Geophysics: An introductory Textbook for geologists and geophysicists, Prentice –Hall, Inc., p361, ISBN 0-13-490517-2 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QC 806 L55). |
| Other References |
Plummer C.C., McGeary, D. 1991, Physical Geology, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, p543, ISBN 0-697-09827 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QE 28.2 .P58).
Fletcher, C., 2014, Physical Geology :The Science of the Earth, John Wiley & Sons, p678, ISBN 9781118559680 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QE 28.2.F548)
Press, F., Siever, R., 1997, Understanding Earth, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, p682, ISBN 0-7167-2836-2 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QE 28 .P74).
Martin H.P. Bott, 1982, The Interior of the Earth: its structure, constitution and evolution, Elsevier, Pub, p403, ISBN 0-444 00723-7 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QE 28.2 .B68).
Fowler, C.M.R., 2005, The Solid Earth : An introduction to Global Geophysics, Cambridge University Press, p685,ISBN 0-521-58409-4 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QC 806 .F69).
Hamblin, W.K., Christiansen, E.H. 1998, Earth's Dynamic Systems, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, p740, ISBN 0-13-745373-6 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QE 28.2 .H36).
Lowrie, W., 2007, Fundamentals of Geophysics, Cambridge University Press, p381, ISBN 9780521859028 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QC 806.L69)
Stacey, F.D., Davis, P.M., 2008, Physics of the Earth, Cambridge University Press, p532, ISBN 9780521873628 (İTU Mustafa İnan Library, QC 806.S73) |
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