Syllabus:
- Scalar and vector potential fields;
- Laplace, Maxwell and Helmholtz equations for solution of different types of boundary value problems in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical polar coordinates; Green’s theorem; Image theory; integral equations in potential and timevarying field theory.
Gravity Methods
- Absolute and relative gravity measurements;
- Gravimeters;
- Land, airborne, shipborne and bore-hole gravity surveys;
- Tensorial Gravity sensors and surveys;
- Corrections for gravity data reduction - free air, Bouguer and isostatic anomalies
- density estimates of rocks;
- regional and residual gravity separation;
- principle of equivalent stratum;
- data enhancement techniques, upward and downward continuation; derivative maps, wavelength filtering; preparation and analysis of gravity maps;
- gravity anomalies and their interpretation – anomalies due to geometrical and irregular shaped bodies, depth rules, calculation of mass