Syllabus:
- Elements of elasticity theory- stress and strain tensors,
- Generalized Hooke’s Law;
- Body and Surface Waves; Rotational, dilatational, irrorational and equivolumnal waves.
- Reflection and refraction of elastic waves
- Inhomogenous and evanescent waves and bounded waves;
- Eikonal Equation and Ray theory;
- earthquakes-causes and measurements,
- magnitude and intensity,
- focal mechanisms;
- earthquake quantification, source characteristics,
- seismotectonics and seismic hazards;
- digital seismographs,
- Earthquake statistics,
- wave propogation in elastic media,
- quantifying earthquake source from seismological data.
- Elements of Seismic Tomography.