Syllabus:
- The earth as a planet; different motions of the earth; gravity field of the earth,
- Clairaut’s theorem,
- size and shape of earth;
- geomagnetic field, paleomagnetism;
- Geothermics and heat flow;
- seismology and interior of the earth;
- variation of density, velocity, pressure, temperature, electrical and magnetic properties of the earth.
Geodesy -
- Gravitational Field of the Earth;
- Geoid; Ellipsoid; Geodetic Reference Systems; Datum;
- Everest (1830) and WGS 84 (1984) systems; GPS and DGPS;
- Levelling and Surveying.