Material for online class, 2008 Version.

To view the lecture video clips download Quick Time for the QT videos.

Starting May 16, 2008 Unit 11:

Reading:

Read: Paleointensity

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers will receive the solution key.

 

Starting May 5, 2008 Unit 10:

Reading:

Read: Getting a paleomagnetic direction

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by May 10th, 2008 will receive the solution key.

 

Starting April 30, 2008 Unit 9:

Reading:

Read: Applied Rock Magnetism

Problem set:

There is no problem set for online students. :)

 

Starting April 15, 2008 Unit 8:

Reading:

Read: Hysteresis

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by April 30th, 2008 will receive the solution key.

 

Starting March 26, 2008 Unit 7:

Reading:

Read: Magnetic Mineralogy

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by April 15th, 2008 will receive the solution key.

 

Starting March 11, 2008 Unit 6:

Reading:

Read: How rocks get and stay magnetized

Quicktime podcast of lecture: [QT]

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by April 1st, 2008 will receive the solution key.

 

Starting February 22nd, 2008 Unit 5:

Reading:

Read: Magnetic anisotropy, magnetic domains and superparamagnetism

Quicktime podcast of lecture: [QT]

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by March 7th, 2008 will receive the solution key.

 

Starting February 18th, 2008 Unit 4:

Reading:

Read: Induced and Remanent Magnetism

Quicktime podcast of lecture: [QT]

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by March 3rd, 2008 will receive the solution key.

 

Starting February 12th, 2008 Unit 3:

Reading:

Read: The Geomagnetic Field

Quicktime podcast of lecture: [QT]

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by February 25th, 2008 will receive the solution key.

Supplemental Reading (you must be registered for the class to get access to this).

 

Starting February 6th, 2008 Unit 2:

Reading:

Read: The Physics of Magnetism

Quicktime podcast of lecture: [QT]

Problem set:

Do the problems at the end of the chapter and e-mail your answers to ltauxe@ucsd.edu.

Registered students turning in answers by February 20th, 2008 will receive the solution key.

Starting February 4th, 2008 Unit 1:

Part of the class is to gain a full understanding of the principles behind common practices and will require the student to learn the basics of computer programming. So the first unit will be to set up your computer to program in a popular and freely available programming enviroment know as Python.

Reading:

Read Python programming for paleomagnetists [pdf]

Quicktime podcast of lecture: [QT] (4.2 MB)

Problem set:

Install Python and the PmagPy software package according to instructions here. Please contact the professor if you are having difficulty.