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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Course Overview
2 Stress
3 Different Representations of Stress
4 Tectonic Stress
5 Changing Coordinate Systems and Mohr's Circle
6 Stress Variations in the Crust
7 Strain Problem set 1 due
8 Measuring Strain
9 Mohr's Circle for Strain
10 Finite Strain - Motivation
11 Introduction to Constitutive Equations and Elasticity Problem set 2 due
12 Elasticity
13 More Special Cases of Elasticity
14 Simple Example: Uniaxial Strain
15 Special Cases Problem set 3 due
16 Dislocation in Elastic Halfspace Model of the Earthquake Cycle
17 Stress and Strain from a Screw Dislocation
18 Plates
19 Plates (cont.) Problem set 4 due
20 Plates (cont.)
21 Fluids
22 Fluids (cont.) Problem set 5 due
23 Navier Stokes Equation
24 The Rayleigh - Taylor Instability
25 The Stream Function Problem set 6 due
26 Postglacial Rebound
27 Flow in Porous Media
28 Time Dependent Porous Flow Problem set 7 due