DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Master's Degree in Physics
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINE Curriculum
Master's Degree in Physics
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINE Curriculum
SISMOLOGY
GEO/10 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester
Teaching Staff
STEFANO GRESTALearning Objectives
Knoweledge of theory of the seismic source and of the seimic waves proppagation.
Detailed Course Content
Theory of elasticity. Stress and strain tensors. Equations of Navier. Equations and propagation of P and S waves. Seismic energy. The Snell's law.. Seismic networks. Hypocentral locations. The Richter's.magnitude Foreshocks and aftershocks. Omori's and Gutenberg-Richter's laws. Elastic dislocations. Seismic sources. Focal mechanisms.
Textbook Information
Lay e Wallace - Modern global seismology, Academic Press, 1995
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