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| JFZ4005 | Geomagnetism | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Murat ÖZKAPTAN | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The student should obtain fundemantal knowledge about geomagnetism |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | help the students to enhance their knowledge about the physics of magnetism | 1,7,9 | | | LO - 2 : | grasped magnetic field of the earth and its time and space variation. | 1,7,9 | | | LO - 3 : | comprehend the origin of the earth magnetic field as external and internal magnetic field of the earth | 1,7,9 | | | LO - 4 : | comprehend the rock magnetism | 1,7,9 | | | LO - 5 : | grasped fundemantal informations on the magnetic surveying and magnetometers | 1,7,9 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Historical introduction and basic principles. the pyhsics of the magnetism. The magnetic properties of metrials. Rock magnetism. Remnant magnetizations in rocks. Magnetic field of the earth and its time and space variations, origin of magnetic field, secular variations. introduction paleomagnetism, magnetic surveying, magnetic anomalies as measured offshore and their relation to mid-ocean spreading centres in plate tectonics. Magnetometers |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Historical Introduction to Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism | | | Week 2 | General descriptions of the magnetism | | | Week 3 | Magnetic field effects (GAUSS I-II-III) and magnetism of the materials | | | Week 4 | Seperations of the magnetic fields of external and internal origin | | | Week 5 | Potential of the magnetic pole and equetion of the magnetic force lines | | | Week 6 | Mathematical description of the geomagnetic field, spherical harmonic analysis | | | Week 7 | GAUSS harmonic analysis and its results, dipole magnetic field of the earth | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Non-dipole magnetic field of the earth | | | Week 10 | Secular variations of the geomagnetic field | | | Week 11 | Magnetic properties of the meterials | | | Week 12 | 2. Midterm exam | | | Week 13 | Remanent magnetism in rocks. Magnetic Hysteresis | | | Week 14 | Magnetic Anisotropy and magnetic anomalies | | | Week 15 | Magnetometers, Magnetic surveying, | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Lowrie, W., 1997, Fundamentals of Geophysics, Cambridge University Press. | | | |
| 1 | Merrill, R.T. and Mc Elhinny, M.W., 1983, The Earths Magnetic Field, Academic Press, London. | | | 2 | Collinson, D.W., 1983, Methods in Rock Magnetism and Paleomagnetism, Chapmann and Hall, London. | | | 3 | Nagata, T., 1961, Rock Magnetism, Maruzen, Tokyo. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 09/04/2016 | 100 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 30/05/2016 | 120 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 12 | 1 | 12 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Kısa sınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 16 | 1 | 16 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 104 |
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