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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity for Ph.D. Students - NDGF014
Title: Geomagnetismus a geoelektřina pro doktorandy
Form of teaching: lecture+practicals
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2017
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jakub Velímský, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Mathematical description of the geomagnetic field. Time variations of the geomagnetic field. Paleomagnetism. Reversals of the Earth's magnetic field. Transient magnetic variations of the external field. Magnetic fields of the Sun, Moon and planets. Introduction to the dynamo theory.
Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
Aim of the course -

The purpose of this basic geophysical course is to introduce to the students the properties of magnetic and electric fields of the Earth, Sun, and other celestial bodies, the problematic of measurements, mathematical-physical description and modelling of these fields and their relations to the physical, chemical, and mineralogical structure of the Earth and its surrounding and to the dynamical processes in the Earth.

Last update: T_KG (07.04.2008)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Podmínky pro udělení zápočtu:

Získání alespoň 7 bodů z 10 za domácí úkoly zadané v průběhu semestru.

Úkoly je možné vrátit k doplnění a přepracování (1x úkoly 1-6 - jednobodové, 2x úkoly 7-8 - dvoubodové).

Použití generativní umělé inteligence k vypracování úkolů není zakázáno, ale musí být studentem deklarováno a konkrétně vysvětleno jak a proč byla využita.

Získání zápočtu je podmínkou pro konání zkoušky.

Forma zkoušky: písemná, bodovaná nebo distanční (telecon)

Klasifikace: >=51% dobře/prospěl; >=67% velmi dobře; >=85% výborně

Požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Last update: Velímský Jakub, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (17.08.2026)
Literature - Czech
  • R.T. Merrill, M.W. McElhinny, P.L. McFadden: The magnetic field of the Earth, Academia Press, London 1996.
  • A. Janáčková: Geomagnetismus (rukopis učebního textu).

Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
Teaching methods -

Lecture + exercises

Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)
Syllabus -
The Earth's magnetic field

The present geomagnetic field (GMF). Magnetic and geomagnetic coordinates and poles. Geomagnetic charts. Principles of the main geomagnetic devices and methods of measurment. Mathematical description of GMF - Gauss spherical harmonic analysis. Internal and external Earth's magnetic field. Geomagnetic dipole, excentric dipole.

Time variations of the GMF

a) Slow changes of the internal field Paleomagnetism. Rock magnetization. Virtual poles, paleomagnetic poles. Apparent polar wander paths. GMF reversals. b) Transient variations of the external field The magnetosphere. Charged particles in the magnetosphere. Regular variations of GMF. Storms and substorms. Aurora. Pulzations. Magnetic indices.

Magnetic fields of the bodies of the solar system

The Sun and its structure. Magnetic field of the Sun. Solar wind. Magnetic fields of planets.

Generation of the Earth's magnetic field

Bullard disc dynamo. The equations of the Earth's dynamo. Kinematic dynamos. Dynamics of the geodynamo.

Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
 
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