Course Details
Physical Geodesy
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
7 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Gravity potential theory. Spherical harmonic functions and Legendre´s functions. Poisson´s equation, Laplace´s equation and some of the solutions.
- 2. Field of centrifugal force of the rotating Earth. Field of tidal forces. Earth´s gravity field. Gravity potential level surfaces of gravity potential.
- 3. Theory of heights. Stokes´ parameters and their determination. Normal gravity and gravity force field of level spheroids.
- 4. Earth´s normal gravity field. Measurement of fundamental gravity field parameters.
- 5. Modern methods for determination of the Earth´s shape.
- 6. Tidal phenomena, local and regional geodynamics. Earth´s magnetic and thermal field.
- 7. Practical applications of physical geodesy methods.