GPM101: ELEMENTS OF GEOLGY Credits: 4
- Physical and Structural Geology: Introduction to geology, scope, subdisciplines and
relationships with other branches of science, weathering agents, landslides and volcanic activity, Representation of altitude, Dip and strike,outcrops, outlier and inlier, Folds, faults, unconformities, joints and their classification, criteria of their recognition, clinometer compass and its use.
- Mineralogy: Mineral – its definition and mode of occurrence, physical properties of minerals like form, colour, lustre, streak, cleavage,fracture,hardness and specific gravity, Physical characters and chemical composition of the following rock forming minerals : Quartz, Orthoclase, Microcline, Plagioclase , Nepheline, Muscovite,Biotite, Augite, Hornblende, Olivine, Garnet, Epidote, Calcite and Beryl, graphite, tourmalilne, talc, Kaolinite, Kyanite and Corundum.
- Perology : Rock- its definition, classification and distinguishing characteristics of Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic rocks forms of Igneous rocks, elementary ideas regarding formation, texture and structure of Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic rocks, brief petrographic description and occurrences of the following rocks: Granite, Syenite, Gabbro, Rhyolite, Dolerite, Basalt, Conglomerate, Breccia, Sandstone, Limestone, Shale, Gneiss, Schist, Quartzite and Marble, Formation of rocks in plate tectonic settings.
Suggested Books:
- Berry & Mason : Mineralogy
- Billings : Structural Geology
- Mukherjee : A Text Book of Geology
- Read & Rutley’s : Elements of Mineralogy
- Singh : Stuctural Geology: A Practical Approach
- Smith : Minerals and Microscope
- Tyrrell : Principles of Petrology
GPM102: GENERAL METEOROLOGY Credits: 4
- Instrumentation: Surface, self recording and upper air meteorological instruments (mercury and aneroid barometer, barograph, air thermmeters,bimetallic thermograph, psychrometer, hair hygrograph, cup anemometer, Dines pressure tube anemograph, ordinary and recording rain gauges, nephoscope, sunshine recorder.
- Composition and structure of the atmosphere.
- Evaporation, condensation, fog, cloud and precipitation, thunderstorm, supercell and multi cell structure, tornado.
- Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic principles, properties of dry and moist air, adiabatic processes, hydrostatic stability and instability, parcel method, tephigram.
- Radiation: Solar and terrestrial radiation, laws of radiation, green house effect, Simpson”s method of computing long wave radiation flux, heat balance of the earth and its atmosphere.
- Wind System: Geostrophic wind, gradient wind, thermal wind, cyclostrophic wind and inertial wind, land and sea breezes, mountain and valley winds.
- Air masses, front, jet stream. Extra tropical and tropical cyclones and anticyclones, western disturbances.
- General Circulation of the Atmosphere: N.E. And S.W. Monsoon, seasons.
- Principles of weather forecasting.
Suggested Books:
- Byers: General Meteorology IV edition
- Cole : Introduction to Meteorology
- Pettersen: Introduction to Meteorology
- Banerjee & Upadhyay: Mausam Vigyan
- Lutgens & Tarbuck: the atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology
- Rama Sastry: Weather and Weather Forecasting
- Das: the Monsoons
- Wallace and Hobbs: Meteorology and Introductory Survey
GPM103: NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Credits: 4
- Numerical Methods: Solution of algebraic and transcendental equations, bisection and Newton-Raphson methods, solution of simultaneous linear equations, matrix inversion method, interpolation, Newton and Lagrange formula, numerical differentiation, numerical integration, Simpson, trapezoidal and Gaussian quadrature methods, least square curve fitting, straight line and polynomial fits, numerical solution of ordinary differential equation, Euler and Runga-Kutta methods, finite difference methods.
- Computer Programming: Low level and high level languages, overview of compilers, interpreters and operating systems, problem solving on a computer, algorithms and flow charts integer and floating point arithmetic, Fortran preliminaries, constants, variables, data types and expressions, built in functions, executable and non-executable statements assignment, control and input /output statements, subroutines and functions, operations with files.
Suggested Books:
- Sastry: Introductory Methods of Numerical Analysis
- Jain, Iyengar & Jain: Numerical Methods for Scientific and Engineering Computation
- Raja Raman: Numerical Analysis
- Raja Raman: Fundamentals of Computers
- Raja Raman: Fortran Programming
- Ram Kumar: Programming with Fortran 77
GPM104: PRACTICAL BADED ON COURSE GPM101 Credits: 2
- Clinometer compass and its use for determination of dip and strike of different beds.
- Geological problems on slope, dip and thickness of the beds.
- Drawing of geological sections of the given maps.
- Study of the physical properties pf rock forming minerals (given in theory syllabus).
- Megascopic study of rocks given in theory syllabus.
GPM105: PRACTICAL BADED ON COURSE GPM102 Credits: 2
- Familiarization with meteorological instruments and record surface meteorological observations.
- Study of surface weather and upper air codes.
- Exercises in coding and decoding.
- Exercises in plotting station models.
GPM106: PRACTICAL BADED ON COMPUTER PROGAMMING Credits: 2
To write and execute computer programs in FORTRAN language for the following problems:
- Solution of transcendental or polynomial equation by Newton Raphson methods.
- Numerical integration using Simpson/Gaussian quadrature method.
- Solution of first order differential equation using Runga-Kutta method.
- Linear curve fitting and calculation of linear correlation coefficients.
- Matrix inversion and solution of simultaneous equations.
- Numerical first order differentiation of a given.
GPM107: EXCURSION AND TOUR REPORT Credits: 2
During the first Semester, the students will be required to visit some geophysical establishments and laboratories in the country to acquaint themselves with various geophysical activities and submit the tour report to the tour In-charge. The visit may be arranged during the intra/inter Semester break.
GPM108M: FUNDAMENTALS OF METEORLOGY Credits: 3
- Composition and structure of the atmosphere.
- Evaporation, condensation, fog, cloud, precipitation and thunderstorm.
- Thermodynamic: Thermodynamic principles, properties of dry and moist air, adiabatic processes, hydrostatic stability and instability, parcel method.
- Radiation: Solar and terrestrial radiation, definitions, laws of radiation, albedo, green house effect.
- Local winds: Land and sea breezes, mountain and valley winds, anabatic and katabatic winds, foehn or Chinook.
- Condensation, precipitation, air masses, front, jet stream, extra-tropical and tropical cyclones, western disturbances, anticyclones, tornado.
- General Circulation of the Atmosphere: N.E. And S.W. Monsoon, seasons, climate and weather.
Suggested Books:
- Byers: General Meteorology IV edition
- Cole: Introduction to Meteorology
- Pettersen: Introduction to Meteorology
- Banerjee & Upadhyay: Mausam Vigyan
- Lutgens & Tarbuck: The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology
- Das: The Monsoon
