This is a tentative rough draft of the class schedule.
The day-by-day calendars on the right sidebar give more detail, but are also a work in progress and are likely to change as we advance through the Quarter.

Reports of highlights from each class are also posted on the right sidebar.

Week 1, 2:

• What is a continuum?
• Continuum concepts in 1-D

Week 3, 4:

• index notation
• vector algebra
• Cartesian tensors

Week 5:

• Stress, Mohr's circles
• Coulomb failure

Week 6:

• Measuring stress in the Earth
• World Stress Map project
• Take-home Mid-term

Week 7:

• Moments, and bending lithospheric plates

Week 8:

• Infinitesimal strain and strain rate
• Finite strain
• Global Strain-Rate Map Project

Week 9:

• Conservation laws
• Constitutive relations

Week 10:

• Constitutive relations

Week 11:

• Elastic waves
• Kinematic waves

Exam Week :

• Take-home exams due
• ESS 511 Project oral reports

Fall 2021 calendar