Physical Geodesy detailed syllabus for Geoinformatics Engineering (Geo) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Geo students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Geoinformatics Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Geo 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to Geo Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of physical geodesy is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION
Need to study gravity- historical review- research areas- applications. Potential theory: some vector calculus- attraction and potential- potential of a solid body- Laplace equation – exterior potential field-Poisson equation – interior potential field- spherical harmonics- boundary-value problems.
Unit II
GRAVITY FIELD OF THE EARTH
Gravitation- gravity- attraction of a point mass- attraction of a point mass- rigid body- gravity and shape of the Earth- level surfaces and plumb lines- natural coordinates- Normal gravity: Superposition principle- ellipsoid as an approximation of the Earth- the level ellipsoid- series expansion of the normal gravity field.
Unit III
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Unit IV
GRAVITY FIELD AND HEIGHT SYSTEMS
Statistics of the gravity field: The power spectrum- Kaula’s rule of thumb- covariance functions-Height systems: Height measurements- physical and geometric heights and their relationship- height systems around the world- Geoid as a vertical reference frame.
Unit V
TEMPORAL VARIATIONS OF THE GRAVITY FIELD
Geophysical effects on gravity- loading theory- tides- hydrological loading- atmospheric loadingocean loading- ice-mass loading- glacial isostatic adjustment.
Course Outcomes:
•On completion of the course, the student is expected to
- Understand the physics of gravity and governing equations
- Define gravity and surfaces generated through gravity observations
- Identify methods and techniques for Erath’s gravity field determination
- Acquire knowledge of earth’s gravity field parameters computations_1
- Understand the factors affecting gravity field and their influence.
Reference Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Geoinformatics Engineering 6th Sem, visit Geo 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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