1.OBJECTIVES

• Students get acquainted with the basic physical characteristics of the Earth and Earth phenomena. Presented are those fields of geophysics, which are important for surveying.

2.VSEBINA

• Classification of geophysics;
• Seismology and seismic, Earth's construction, geotectonic forces, faults tectonics;
• Earth's gravity field, gravity force, potential of gravity force;
• Geometry of gravity field, level masses and plumb line, gradient of gravity;
• Earth's gravity field with the help of spherical functions, global geopotential models;
• Earth's shape, geoid, level ellipsoid, normal gravity field;
• Irregularities of the Earth's gravity field: deviation of the vertical line, gravity anomalies;
• Height systems, mean sea level;
• Determining the geoid, data types and methods to determine geoid;
• Methods of measuring free-fall acceleration, absolute and relative measurements, gravimeters;
• Gravimetric survey;
• Earth's magnetic field, physical basics, time and spatial changes of the geomagnetic field, measuring the Earth's magnetism.

• Computational example of determining the geoid in several ways,
• 24-hour observation of changes in magnetic declination, observation data processing.

3. LINKAGE WITH OTHER SUBJECTS

• Knowledge from mathematics and physics and all surveying subjects;

• The acquired knowledge helps to better understanding of the study material at the subjects GPS and Geodesy II.

4. STUDY MATERIAL AND REFERENCES

• Heiskanen W.A., Moritz H. 1967, Physical Geodesy, TU Graz.
• Jakosky J. 1960, Geofizička istraživanja, prevod iz angleščine, Naučna knjiga, Beograd.
• Kuhar M. 1997, Geofizika, študijski pripomoček, FGG Ljubljana.
• Lapajne J. 1986, Osnove geofizike, srednješolski učbenik, Tehniška založba Slovenije, Lj.
• Starčević M. 1991, Gravimetrijske metode istraživanja, Nauka, Beograd.
• Klak S. 1968, Geofizika, GF Zagreb.
• Klak S. 1974, Gravimetrija, GF Zagreb.

5. ENGAGEMENT OF STUDENTS

6. PARTICULARITIES