MIT OpenCourseWare
Essentials of Geophysics
- Instructor
- Prof. Robert Van Der Hilst
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 12 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.201 Essentials of Geophysics, Fall 2004, Prof. Robert Van Der Hilst — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
- Chapter 1: The Earth in the Solar System Download
- Chapter 2: The Earth’s Gravitational Field Download
- Chapter 3: The Magnetic Field of the Earth Download
- Chapter 4: Seismology Download
- Chapter 5: Geodynamics Download
Assignments
- Problem Set 1 Download
- Problem Set 2 Download
- Problem Set 3 Download
- Problem Set 4 Download
- Problem Set 5 Download
Tools
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Robert Van Der Hilst, 12.201 Essentials of Geophysics, Fall 2004.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2004 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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