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Meetings: Monday and Wednesday 5:00-6:15 in 105 Robinson (Newark) and 203 Cannon (Lewes)
- NEWS May-18: Final Exam Mon May-25, 2020 11-14 EDT (10-13 Kansas) via online .pdf [I be present on Zoom.]
- NEWS May-18: Optional Class Review Session Fri May-22 at 1 pm EDT
- Please complete Course Evaluations
- NEWS May-13: Class Recordings May-13 and new lecture notes May-13 .
- NEWS May-13: Class Recordings May-11 and new lecture notes May-11 .
Instructor: Andreas Münchow
Goal: Provide each student with an understanding of the general principles of wave mechanics, kinematics, and dynamics as well as their applications to surface gravity waves, acoustic waves, electromagnetic waves, and large scale geophysical waves.
Format: This is lecture-style class.
Synopsis (Syllabus):
- 1. Plane Waves - Unforced, acoustics
- 2. Surface Gravity Waves - Forced, homogeneous
- 3. Internal Gravity Waves - Forced, stratified
- 4. Shallow Water Waves - Boundaries
- 5. Geophysical Waves - Vorticity
- 6. Nonlinear wave forms
Grading: 40% homework problems, 40% final exams, 20% contributions to in-class discussions.
Exam: Comprehensive Final
Texts:
- Chapman, D.C. and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, 1989: Wave Motions in the Ocean presented to Myrl C. Hendershot, unpublished document, 174 pp.
- Feddersen, F., 2018: Waves in the ocean - linear treatment. Unpublished notes at http://falk.ucsd.edu
- Gill, A.E., 1982: Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Academic Press Inc., Orlando, FL, 662 pp.
- Kundu, P.K., 1990: Fluid Mechanics, Academy Press, New York, NY, 503 pp.
- Lighthill, J., 1978: Waves in Fluids, Cambridge Press, New York, NY, 503 pp.
Old News:
- NEWS May-07: Corrected error in lecture notes for Apr.-20, 2020 [Thank you, Jirat.]
- NEWS May-06: Class Recordings May-6 and revised lectures May-4 and May-6.
- NEWS May-04: Class Recordings May-4 and lecture notes-1 and notes-2.
- NEWS Apr.-29: Class Recordings April-29 and lecture notes.
- NEWS Apr.-27: Class Recordings April-27 and lecture notes.
- NEWS Apr.-23: Posted Homework-3
- NEWS Apr.-23: Class Recordings April-20 and Apr.-22, 2020
- NEWS Apr.-20: Uploaded 2018 Final Exam as example of internal wave questions.
- NEWS Apr.-20: Uploaded revised lecture notes for Apr.-15 and Apr.-20, 2020.
- NEWS Apr.-15: Class Recordings April-15, 2020
- NEWS Apr.-15: Class Recordings April-13, 2020
- NEWS Apr.-9: Class Recordings April-08, 2020
- NEWS Apr.-7: Updated Class Schedule
- NEWS Apr.-7: Class Recordings April-06, 2020
- NEWS Apr.-1: Class Recordings April-01, 2020
- NEWS Apr.-1: Added correction to Mar.-30 lecture
- NEWS Apr.-1: Island Wake Photo from South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica.
- NEWS Apr.-1: Added correction to Mar.-30 lecture
- NEWS Feb.-19: Added Group Velocity lecture
- NEWS Feb.-17: First Homework due Feb.-24, 20020
- NEWS Feb.-13: Updated Lecture Notes Waves02 with corrections
- NEWS Feb.-12: Posted Syllabus with correct class web-page
- NEWS Feb.-11: Posted Syllabus
- NEWS Feb.-07: Moved class room to accommodate Lewes Students
Last updated: Mon May 18 18:32:21 EDT 2020