Ge 108: Applications of Physics to the Earth Sciences

Mike Brown, mbrown@caltech.edu, 395-8423, 168 S. Mudd.

Darin Ragozzine, darin@gps.caltech.edu, 395-6960, 160 S. Mudd.

Click here to learn how to get MATLAB running on your computer.

All handouts and class notes are available here in PDF.

Rough syllabus

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Lecture 1 1st order differential equations
Lecture 2 Applications of 1st order DEs. Look here for the MATLAB program to numerically solve the foxes and the rabbits problem.
Lecture 3 Heat flow.
Lecture 4 Applications of diffusion.
Lecture 5 Radiation.
Lecture 6 Radiative transfer.
Lecture 7 Applications of radiative transfer.
Lecture 8 Numerical methods
Lecture 9 Gravitation
Lecture 10 Gravitational potentials
Lecture 11 Oscillations
Lecture 12 Forced oscillations
Lecture 13 Coupled oscillations
Lecture 14 Waves
Lecture 15 Wave propagation

Problem set 1. Download numeric.m (MATLAB)
Problem set 2. Download diffuse.m (MATLAB) and diffuse2D.m (MATLAB)
Problem set 3.
Problem set 4. Download f.m
Problem set 5
Problem set 6. Fun with springs.m
Problem set 7. Surf for waves.m here
Problem set 8.