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Rotation of the Earth II - NGEO089

Title:	Rotace Země II
Guaranteed by:	Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2005
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Martinec, DrSc.
Teacher(s):	prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Martinec, DrSc.
Classification:	Physics > Geophysics

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Annotation -

Rotation of a deformable Earth, Chandler period. Time variation of the Earth's rotation.

Last update: T_KG (08.03.2005)

Aim of the course -

The lecture helps students understand general principles of non-rigid body rotation and their applications to Earth rotation.

Last update: T_KG (28.03.2008)

Course completion requirements -

Oral exam

Last update: Gallovič František, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Literature - Czech

M. Burša, K. Pěč, Tíhové pole a dynamika Země, Academia, Praha 1988.

W.H. Munk, G.F. MacDonald, The Rotation of the Earth, Cambridge University Press, New York 1960.

H. Moritz, I. Mueller, Earth Rotation, Ungarn Publ. Comp., New York 1987.

Last update: T_KG (08.03.2005)

Teaching methods -

Lecture

Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Syllabus -

Lagrangian approach to Earth's rotation. Woolard's theory

Euler angles as the generalized coordinates, Euler's kinematical equations, Poisson's equations, their alternative form, solution of Poisson's equations, precession, nutation, nutational frequencies, dynamical flattening.

Rotation of a non-rigid Earth. Basic aspects

Rigid reference frame, deformational angular momentum, Tisserand axes, nutation frame, Liouville equations, linearization, excitation functions, angular momentum functions.

Literature:

W.H. Munk, G.F. MacDonald, The Rotation of the Earth, Cambridge University Press, New York 1960.

H. Moritz, I. Mueller, Earth Rotation, Ungarn Publ. Comp., New York 1987.

Last update: T_KG (28.03.2008)