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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 | Doç. Dr. Nazan YILMAZ | | 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 : | They will learn basic physical concepts such as gravity, gravity and gravity, and will have sufficient knowledge about heights and geoid by understanding the importance of the earth's gravity field and level surfaces in geodesy. | 1 | 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 | Midterm | | | Week 9 | Gravimetric methods, determination of plumb deviation and geoid | | | 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 | 8 | 22/11/2012 | 45 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 18/01/2013 | 45 | 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 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 50 |
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