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Mathematical methods in geophysics for doctoral students - NDGF028
Title: Matematické metody v geofyzice pro doktorandy
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2015
Semester: both
E-Credits: 9
Hours per week, examination: 3/3, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Ondřej Čadek, CSc.
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (17.04.2015)
The course is offered to the PhD students who did not attend the basic lectures in mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The goal of the course is to deepen the knowledge of the mathematical methods used in geophysical research and to gain practice in using them.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KG (17.04.2015)

Acquainting PhD students with basic mathematical methods used in geophysical research

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. Ondřej Čadek, CSc. (06.10.2017)

Zápočet: Aktivní účast na cvičení a vypracování šesti domácích úkolu.

Zkouška probíhá formou písemky, po které následuje ústní zkoušení.

Literature -
Last update: T_KG (17.04.2015)

Mary L. Boas, Mathematical methods in the physical science, John Wiley, 1983

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KG (17.04.2015)

1. Complex numbers; exponential, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions; logarithms.

2. Scalars, vectors and tensors; linear algebraic equations, matrices and determinants.

3. Derivatives, partial derivatives, differentials; extremes of functions, Lagrange multipliers. Functions and limits.

4. Integrals and their evaluation, line and surface integrals; change of variables, Jacobians; differentiation of integrals, Leibnitz theorem.

5. Differential operators; Green, Stokes and Gauss theorems, transformation of coordinates, tensor analysis.

6. Fourier series; Legendre polynomials and spherical harmonic functions; Fourier and Laplace transform; distributions; convolution.

7. Ordinary differential equations and methods of their solution.

 
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