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| HRT3019 | Phyiscal Geodesy | 2+0+0 | ECTS:2 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOMATICS ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Arş. Gör. Fatih TERZİ | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To inform students about issues such as powers affecting the earth, gravity field of the earth, height systems and reference surface of for heights. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | learn basic concepts such as gravitational, potential and gravity and they will assimilate importance of physical geodesy in geodesy. | 2 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | understand earth gravity field and impotance in geodesy. | 2 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | understand level surfaces and their roles in geodesy. | 2 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | learn height concepts , types and how obtained the heights. | 2 | 1, | | LO - 5 : | have knowledgeable about geoid and mean earth ellipsoid. | 2 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Gravitational and potential theory. Earth gravity field. Gravity and level surfaces. Standart gravity field and level ellipsoid. Gravimetric methods. Height concepts and heights typs. Astro-geodetic methods. To determine geoid and mean earth ellipsoid. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Subject and aim of lesson | | | Week 2 | Gravitational force and potential | | | Week 3 | Harmonic functions, Laplace equation, boundary value problems. | | | Week 4 | Earth gravity fiels and its importance | | | Week 5 | Level surfaces, their properties and geoid | | | Week 6 | Standart (normal) gravity field | | | Week 7 | Disturbing gravity field, Plumb deviation, gravity anomalies and geoid undulation | | | Week 8 | Gravimetric methods, determination of plumb deviation and geoid | | | Week 9 | Midterm | | | Week 10 | Gravity reductions | | | Week 11 | Earth phsical constants, Earth mean ellipsoid and reference ellipsoid | | | Week 12 | Geoid as reference surface, geopotential numbers and heights | | | Week 13 | Computation of dynamic, orthometric and normal heights and their corrections | | | Week 14 | Astrogeodetic methods | | | Week 15 | Completion of missing | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Weikkoa Heiskanen, Helmut Moritz. 1984; Fiziksel jeodezi, Türkçesi Onur Gürkan, Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi. Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi. Genel yayın ; No. 19 Fakültesi yayın ; No. 8 | | | |
| 1 | Torge, W., Geodesy, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin-Newyork, 1980. | | | 2 | P. Vanicek ve N.T. Christou.1994; Geoid and Its Geophysical Interpretations, CRC Press, Florida. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 1 | 8 | 8 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 8 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 60 |
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