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Class Meetings and Notes

Class meets Mondays and Wednesdays 4-5:20 in GeoChem 150. All assignments due by classtime on day noted. Baylor's office hours are Mondays 1:30-2:30 and Thursdays 2:00-3:00 or by appointment (just check my availability and request a time). The calendar of lectures with slides and links is below. It is also available as a public subscription iCalendar called "GEOL2300: Mathematical and Computational Earth Sciences" at http://bit.ly/1M9otNu. Be sure to click on the HW & Reading where you can check under "Description" and mabye also "more details" for assignment and reading links.

Web Resources and Texts

  1. HW (all)
Project resources:
  1. Graphical Inspiration
  2. Peer reviewing guidelines
  3. Reading assignment guidelines
  4. Math Resource Center
  5. Tutoring
  6. Science Center Advising

Main Texts

Most useful and available online through Josiah:
  1. Fowler, Mathematical Geosciences
  2. Bender & Orszag, Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

Secondary Textbooks

  1. Boas, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
  2. Arfken, Weber, and Harris, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Seventh Edition: A Comprehensive Guide
  3. Cushman-Roisin and Beckers, Introduction to geophysical fluid dynamics: Physical and Numerical Aspects
  4. Marshall and Plumb, Atmosphere, ocean, and climate dynamics: an introductory text
  5. Schubert, Turcotte, and Olson, Mantle convection in the earth and planets
  6. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
  7. Vallis, Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics : Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation
  8. Robert H. Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography
    Web-distributed basic but comprehensive textbook.
  9. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (AR5, WGI), 2013: Physical Science Summary, and Summary for Policymakers

Websites

  1. Wolfram Alpha
  2. Mathematics of Planet Earth
  3. Cleon Teunissen's Rotation Physics

Additional Fun Reading

Nonfiction

  1. Lamb, 1917: Lamb, On Waves in an Elastic Plate
  2. Love, 1897: Theoretical Mechanics: An Introductory Treatise on the Principles of Dynamics with Applications and Numerous Examples
  3. Taylor, 1920: Tidal Friction in the Irish Sea
  4. Hofstadter, Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  5. Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
  6. Bowditch, 1880: The American Practical Navigator
  7. Maury, 1860: The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology

Fiction

  1. Square, Flatland
  2. Dana, Two Years Before the Mast
  3. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  4. Homer, The Odyssey
  5. London, The Sea Wolf
  6. Stevenson, Treasure Island

Brown Specific Guidelines

  1. Disability Support Services
  2. Academic & Student Conduct Codes, *Note* Prof. Fox-Kemper regards inappropriate cellphone and laptop use as disruptive behavior.
  3. Academic Code

The Idea Behind Stokes' Theorem, Mathinsight.org