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COURSE SYLLABUS

YEAR COURSE OFFERED: 2020

SEMESTER COURSE OFFERED: Fall

DEPARTMENT: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

COURSE NUMBER: GEOL 4381 (Lecture 20056 | Lab 20057)

NAME OF COURSE: Geophysical Signals & Analysis

NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: Yingcai Zheng

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Due to the changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, please note that the instructor may need to make modifications to the course syllabus and may do so at any time. Notice of such changes will be announced as quickly as possible in class or through email.

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Learning Objectives

Basic properties of geophysical signals: heat, gravity, seismology and associated analysis techniques.

Major Assignments/Exams

Homework, two exams, lab programming assignments, and quizzes (See next page, under Course grade weights)

Required Reading and software

No textbook is required.

Install Mathematica from UH (FREE)

Install MATLAB from UH (FREE)

Recommended Reading

See attached.

List of discussion/lecture topics

See attached.

GEOL4381 GEOPHYSICAL SIGNALS AND ANALYSIS, FALL 2020

Instructor: Yingcai Zheng

TA: Zhehao Li

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

University of Houston

Lectures:

Time: 5:30‐6:30 pm, Tu & Th. Synchronous online.

Office Hours:

Instructor: Yingcai Zheng

Email (preferred): yzheng24@central.uh.edu

Office: SR1‐129B

Office hours: by appointment

Lab Sections:

TA: Zhehao Li

Time: 7:00‐8:30 pm, Tu & Th. Synchronous online.

Email: zli39@CougarNet.UH.EDU

Office hours: 4:30‐5:30 pm, Tu & Th

Course Grade Weights:

l Homework assignments: 40% (no late homework)

l Exam 1 15%

l Exam 2: 15%

l Lab projects: 25%

l In‐class quizzes: 5%

GEOL4381 GEOPHYSICAL SIGNALS AND ANALYSIS, FALL 2020

GEOL4381 GEOPHYSICAL SIGNALS AND ANALYSIS, FALL 2020

Lab Sections:

Time: 7:00-8:30 pm, Tu & Th. Synchronous online

Office hours: 4:30‐5:30 pm, Tu & Th

Learning Objectives

o Learning the fundamentals in MATLAB programming.

Major Assignments

Homework and Programming assignments

Required Reading and software

No programming experience is required

No textbook is required.

Install Mathematica from UH (FREE)

List of lab topics

1. MATLAB basics: An introduction to MATLAB

2. MATLAB programming, I

· Arrays, matrices,

· basic arithmetic operations

· plotting, figure or line annotation

3. MATLAB programming II

· Compound interest calculation

· Amortization

· Loan, etc.

4. Heat diffusion

· Solving 1D heat equation numerically

5. Fourier series and Fourier transform: DFT & FFT

6. Spectral analysis

· Analyzing real world seismic data;

· Earth’s free oscillation signals;

· explosion signals,

· climate change signals.

7. Convolution & Deconvolution

· Synthetic seismic data

8. Gravity

· Equipotential surfaces,

· geoid,

· Saturn Rings (Lindblad resonance),

· orbital resonance

9. Geomechanics

· Stress and strain

· Fracture plane

10. Seismic ray tracing

· Snell’s law

· Tracing seismic rays in horizontally layered media

· Rays in spherical Earth

· Traveltime calculation

11. Finite difference modeling of seismic waves

· Reflection, Refraction, diffraction

Interim Undergraduate Grading Policy

Due to the unique and unprecedented challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Houston has implemented an Interim Undergraduate Grade Policy for undergraduate grades which applies to all undergraduate students in courses offered in all sessions during fall 2020. Under this policy, students have the option of converting final assigned letter grades to S (Satisfactory, applicable to any letter grade from A to D-) or NCR (No Credit Reported COVID-19, applicable to grades of F) on their transcripts. Please visit FAQs for additional information.

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