PY2P30

Module PY2P30 Physics for Earth Sciences

Cohort: SF Earth Sciences

Credits: 5

Lecturers: Professors J. Lunney, C. McGuinness

Duration: Michaelmas Term, 24 lectures, practical laboratory

Description: Gravitational attraction, planetary motion, origin of tides, Coriolis force, statics, elasticity and fracture, hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy and flow in fluid systems, seismic and water waves, electric and magnetic fields, magnetic materials, simple optical systems, polarisation of light, heat and temperature, elementary thermodynamics, the origin of atomic spectra and X-ray production.