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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

GEOP2002 (v.1) Propagation of Energy

Area: Department of Exploration Geophysics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 2.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 307727 (v.2) Propagation of Energy 201 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):     302804 (v.3) Physics 101 or any previous version
    OR
    PHYS1005 (v.1) Physics 1 or any previous version
AND
    307726 (v.2) Properties of Matter and Electricity 104 or any previous version
    OR
    1745 (v.5) Physical Measurements 102 or any previous version
    OR
    305415 (v.3) Physics 102 or any previous version
    OR
    PHYS1004 (v.1) Physical Measurements or any previous version
    OR
    PHYS1007 (v.1) Physics 2 or any previous version
AND
    7063 (v.6) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
    OR
    MATH1011 (v.1) Mathematics 2 or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Simple harmonic motion (SHM), energy and SHM resonance. The wave equation and its solution. The diffusion equation. Acoustic impedence and the behaviour of travelling waves at an interface. Basic elasticity in solid materials, types of waves in solids, derivation of the wave equation for an isotropic solid. Constitutive relations for simple materials. The nature of electromagnetic radiation, the electromagnetic wave equations. Transport of energy in waves, generation and scattering of electromagnetic waves. The black body spectrum, the classical problem and its resolution by the introduction of quantum mechanics.
Field of Education: 010705 Geophysics
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

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