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UNIT-I: Special Functions
Bessel’s and Legendre’s differential equations and their series solutions.
Legendre functions: Generating functions, Rodrigue’s formula, Recurrence relations, Orthogonality, Expansion of an arbitrary function in a series of Legendre Polynomials, Associated Legendre functions and its recurrence relations and orthogonality property.
Bessel Functions: Generating functions, Recurrence relations, Integral representation, Orthogonality, Expressions when ‘n’ is half an odd integer, Spheraical Bessel functions.

UNIT-II: Complex Variables
Complex variable, limit, continuity and differentiability of function of complex variables, analytic functions, Cauchy Reimann’s equations, Cauhy’s integral theorem, Morera’s theorem, Cauchy integral formula, Expansion by Taylors and Laurents series, singularities, Residue theorem, contour integration.

Unit-III: Integral Transforms
Fourier series, Fourier transform, inverse Fourier transform, properties of Fourier transform, application of Fourier transform in solving differential equations.
Laplace transform, Inverse Laplace transform, Convolution theorem, Properties of Laplace transform, application of laplace transform in solving differential equations.
A brief introduction to Hankel, Hilbert and Radon transforms.

Unit-IV: Partial Differential Equations
Solution by separation of variables of
(a) Wave equation: Transverse vibrations of a stretched string; Oscillations of a hanging chain, vibrations of rectangular and circular membrances, tidal waves in a canal.
(b) Laplace’s equation: Laplace equation in Cartesian, Cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems, two dimensional steady flow of heat, General cylindrical and spherical harmonics.
(c) Diffusion equation: Variable linear heat flow, periodic heat flow in one dimension, two dimensional heat conduction.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
(1) Applied Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists by L .Pipes & L.R. Horwell
(2) Mathematical Methods for Physicists by G. Arfken
(3) Mathematical Physics by B.S. Rajput
(4) Elementrary Applied Partial Differential Equations: With Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems by Richard Haberman
(5) Integral Transforms by I. Sneddon
(6) Elements of Partial Differential Equations by I. Sneddon





GP-102: Solid Earth Geophysics

UNIT-I
A brief history of the development of Earth Sciences and of Geophysics in particular, An overview of Geophysical methods and their essential features, Problems of inversion and non-uniqueness in Geophysics, Origin & evolution of Earth, A review of the Earth’s major surface features, its structure and composition, A brief review of the knowledge of the solar system and history of the earth-moon system

UNIT-II
Chemical composition of Earth, Rheological behaviour of crust and upper mantle, Geochronology: Radiometric dating and their advantages, meaning of radiometric ages, Major features of the Earth’s gravitational field and relationship with tectonic processes in the crust and upper mantle, concept of isostasy, hypotheses of isostasy.

UNIT-III
Origin of geomagnetic field, polar wandering, secular variations and westward drift, reversals of geomagnetic field, geomagnetic storms, sea-floor spreading, Paleomagnetism and its uses, Thermal history of the Earth, sources of heat generation and temperature distribution inside the earth, convection in the mantle.

UNIT-IV
Earthquake seismology, Global seismicity and tectonics, Earth’s internal structure derived from seismology, Earthquake mechanism and Anderson’s theory of faulting, Continental drift and plate tectonics: its historical perspective and essential features, present day plate motions, Triple junctions, oceanic ridges, Benioff zones, trenches and island arcs, Mountain building, origin of Himalaya, Geodynamics of Indian subcontinent.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
(1) The Solid Earth by C.M.R. Fowler
(2) Understanding the Earth by I.G. Guass, P.S. Smith and R.G.L. Wilson
(3) The dynamic Earth by P.J. Wyllie
(4) Introduction to Geophysics by B.F. Howell
(5) Physics and Geology by J.J. Jacobs, R.D. Russel and J.T. Klilson
(6) Fundamental of Geodynamics by A.E. Schieddeggar
(7) Fundamentals of Geophysics by W. Lowrie


GP-103: NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

UNIT-I
Basic computer organization, information storage media, computer software, computer languages, problem solving on a computer, algorithm, flowchart and computer program, introduction to computer operating systems: DOS, WINDOWS, UNIX/LINUX, concept of SHELL programming.

UNIT-II
FORTRAN preliminaries, constants, variables, data types, expression and statements, iterative statements, input/output statements, subroutine and functions, data sharing among subprograms/programs, operations with files, programming examples to handle problems of numerical and statistical type

UNIT-III
Programming language C: constants, variables, data types, expressions, operators, conditional statements, iterative statements, array, function, simple programming examples
C++ An object oriented language: Concepts of class, object, constructors, destructors, operator overloading, inheritance, pointers, virtual functions, simple programming examples

UNIT-IV
Numerical integration by Simpson’s method, Trapezoidal method, Numerical differentiation, solution of algebraic equation, Netwon Raphson method, solution of simultaneous linear equations, Gauss method, Gauss-Jordon method, Gauss-Seidel method, matrix inversion, least square curve fitting, straight line and polynomial fits, solution of ordinary differential equations.
A brief introduction of Binomial, Poisson and normal distributions, concept of mathematical expectations

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
(1) Fundamentals of computers by V. Rajaraman
(2) FORTRAN 77 and Numerical methods by C. Xavier
(3) FORTRAN Programming and Numerical methods by R.C. Desai
(4) Let us C by Yashwant Kanetkar
(5) Object Oriented programming with C++ by E. Balagurusamy
(6) Advanced UNIX- A Programmers guide by Stephen Prata


GP-104: BASIC GEOLOGY

UNIT – I: INTRODUCTION
Earth Sciences, its subdivisions and relation to other sciences Importance of geology to mankind. Historical Geology: Materials and methods of historical geology, Geologic time, Age of the earth, Fundamental principles of geology. Geomorphological Processes: Exogenic processes (weathering, erosive and tectonic denudation), Geological processes by river, wind, glacier and waves and tides.

UNIT – II: MINERALOGY
Mineral: definition, chemical nature of minerals, Basic sub-atomic particles, atomic mass, atomic number, radioactivity, isotopes and ions, chemical bonding, processes of crystallisation in minerals, Physical properties of minerals, Classification of minerals, Physical properties, chemical composition, mode of occurrences and economic uses of some important rock forming minerals.

UNIT – III: PETROLOGY
Distinguish between rocks and minerals. Igneous Petrology: Magma and its crystallisation, Mode of occurrence, texture and structure, mineralogy and classification of igneous rocks. Sedimentology: Sedimentary processes, sedimentary environments of deposition, texture, structure and classification of sedimentary rocks. Metamorphic Petrology: Metamorphism, factors of metamorphism, types of metamorphism, texture, structure, mineralogy and classification of metamorphic rocks. Indian distribution of major rock types.

UNIT – IV: STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
Primary and secondary structures of rock, Dip, strike, bearing and azimuth. Folds: definition and classification scheme, mechanism of folding, recognisation of folds in the field. Fault: definition and different terminology of fault, mechanism of faulting, recognisation of fault in the field, shear zone, lineament. Joints: definition, types of joint. Unconformity: concepts, types, recognisation and significance of unconformities.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
(1) Rutley’s Elements of Mineralogy By H.H. Read
(2) Structural Geology by M.P. Billings
(3) Principles of Physical Geology by A.H. Holmes
(4) A Text Book of Geology by P.K. Mukherjee
(5) The Principles of Petrology by G.W. Tyrrell
(6) Manual of Field Geology by R.R Compton

GP-201: Remote Sensing and GIS

Unit I
Introduction: Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum, Interaction of EM radiations with earth’s surface and atmosphere, special signatures, remote sensing platforms. Aerial photographs; types of aerial photographs, stereoscopic vision, stereoscopic parallax, measurement of height difference, vertical exaggeration, image distortion. Photo elements, geotechnical elements, photocharacteristics of different rock types and structures, photo-mosaic, rectification. Plotting instruments

Unit II
Satellite Imagery: Imagery vis a vis aerial photograph, active and passive sensors, MSS, LISS, CCD, Infrared and thermal scanners, different satellite programmes, microwave sensors, Remote sensing data products, fundamentals of image interpretations and analysis, visual interpretation of remote sensing data; false colour composite, Concept of digital image analysis, image restoration, image enhancement and information extraction. Supervised and unsupervised classification. Map accuracy assessment.

Unit III
Applications: Interpretation and analysis of aerial photographs and images for identification of different rock types, structures, lineaments and preparation of geological map. Recognition of landforms, drainage pattern and preparation of geomorphological map; applications in engineering projects (dam reservoir, tunnel alignment, route location etc), ground water prospecting, exploration for minerals and oil, geoenvironmental studies (soil conservation, land degradation etc), Disaster management (flood, landslide etc) and monitoring of atmospheric pollution.

Unit IV
Introduction to Geographical Information System (GIS), components of GIS, data structures, Concept of raster and vector data, digitization, editing, attribute attachment etc, creation of layers, Data Integration, vector to raster conversion and vice –versa. Introduction to Global Position System (GPS) and its uses.

Recommended Books:
1. Remote Sensing Geology (Springer Verlag). R.P. Gupta
2. Remote Sensing in Geology (John Wiley & sons). B.S. Siegel and A.R. Gillespie
3. Remote Sensing and image interpretation (John Wiley & sons). T.M. Lillesand and R.W. Kiefer
4. Remote Sensing Principles and interpretation (WH Freeman Company. F.F. Reeds
5. Remote Sensing fro Earth Resources (AEG publication), D.P. Rao
6. Principles of Remote sensing (ELBS London). P. J. Kuran
7. Advances in Geophysics Vol. 1 and 13 (Academic press) H.E. Landesberg
8. Handbook of Information issued by GSI (Airborne Mineral surveys and exploration wing), AEC (Atomic Minerals Divisions) and NGRI.
9. Principles of GIS, P. A. Burrough
10. Indian Society of Geomatics News letters 2004-2005
11. GPS: Theory and Practice (Springer Verlag). B. Hofman-wellenhof, H.lichtenegger and J.Collins

GP-202 STRATIGRAPHY, HIMALAYAN, ECONOMIC AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Unit-1 Stratigraphy
Principles of stratigraphy, elements of stratigraphic classification, physical and structural sub-disciplines of Indian subcontinent and their characteristics, An outline of the geology of India with respect to distribution, classification, lithology and economic importance of the following: Archean, Dharwar, Cuddapah, Vindhyan, Gondawana.

Unit-2: Himalayan Geology
Tectonic divisions of the Himalaya, Geology and tectonics of the Sub-Himalaya including Tertiary of Assam Himalaya, Lesser Himalaya, Higher Himalayan Crystalline, Tethyan Sedimentary Zone, Indus-Tsangpo-Suture Zone and Trans Himalaya.

Unit-3. Economic Geology
Definition of ore, Ore and gangue mineral, Classification of ore deposits, Elementary idea s of the following processes of formation of ore deposits: Magmatic concentration, Pegmatitic, Sedimentation, Evaporation, Residual concentration, Mechanical concentration and Metamorphism, Chemical composition, Diagnostic characters, Occurrences, Uses and Distribution in India of important metallic and non-metallic mineral deposits.

Unit-4. Petroleum Geology
Petroleum, Origin of petroleum, Reservoir rocks, Migration of Oil and gas, Hydrocarbon traps, Formation water characteristics as oil exploration leads, Plate tectonics and global distribution of hydrocarbon reserves, Classfication of Indian basins and petroleum geology of Assam, Bengal, Cavery, Krishna-Godavari, Cambay and Bombay offshore basins.

Recommended Books
1. Economic Geology: Bateman
2. India’s Mineral Resources: Krishna Swami
3. Introduction to India’s Economic Minerals
4. Geology of India and Burma: Krishnan
5. Geology of India: Wadia
6. Geology of Petroleum: Leverson, A.I.
7. Petroleum Geology: Chapman, R.E.
8. Aspects of Tectonics: K.S. Valdiya
9. Dynamic Himalaya: K.S. Valdiya


GP-203: Geophysical Signal Processing

UNIT I: Signal and System
Signals: Various special signal and signal class, orthogonal function, band limited signals, sampling theorem, aliasing effect of sampling on reconstruction of continuous signal from their samples, extrapolation of band limited signals
Systems: Linear time invariant causal and stable system with continuous and discrete input, minimum phase signals, Hilbert transform

UNIT II: Discrere Transform
Z transform, properties of Z transform, and the region of convergence, Z transform of causal and non causal sequence, inverse Z transform
Review of Fourier Transform, Introduction to wavelet transform and Walsh transform and their application in geophysics
discrete fourier transform, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), digital filters: recursive and non-resursive filters, Amplitude and phase response of filters, ideal and realizable low pass, band pass and high pass filters, direct and canonical realization scheme, Cascade and paraellel realization scheme, finite and infinite unit impulse response filter, cepstral analysis

UNIT III: Time series analysis
Introduction of stochastic process, autocorrelation and cross correlation, Stationarity, Wide sense stationarity, ergodicity, power spectral density function, Wiener Khinchine theorem, White Gaussian Noise, Wiener Filtering, Matched Filtering

UNIT IV: Applications
Importance of Windowing, Commonly used windows, extension of linear theory to two and three-dimensional cases, downward continuation, gravity convolution model, resistivity convolution model, Seismic convolution model, applications of FFT in geophysics, application of signal processing in seismology.

Reccomended Books

1. Signal and Systems, M.L. Meade and C.R.Dillon , Chapman and Hall London
2. Digital Signal Processing, 1975, Oppenheim, A.V. and R.W. Schafer, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
3. An Introduction to Statistical Communication Theory, J. B. Thomas, John Wiley, New York
4. Spectral Analysis in Geophysics, 1974, Markus Bath, Elsevier, Amsterdam
5. Signal Analysis, 1977, A. Popoulis, McGraw Hill New York
6. The Fourier Integrala nd its applications, A. Popoullis, , McGraw Hill New York
7. Time Sequence Analysis in Geophysics, 1975, E.R. Kanscwich


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