Lecture Schedule

  1. History of seismology

Wave Theory

  1. Harmonic oscillator
  2. Waves on a string
  3. Stress and strain
  4. Equation of motion and constitutive equations
  5. Boundary conditions
  6. Planewaves
  7. Lame’s theorem; P and S waves
  8. P-SV and SH decomposition
  9. Rayleigh & Love waves; dispersion
  10. Normal models of the Earth
  11. Intrinsic attenuation
  12. Seismic anisotropy
  13. Born approximation and imaging
  14. Seismic interferometry
  15. Representation theorems