After successful completion of the course, students are able to calculate gravity attraction and potential of simply shaped bodies and familiar with  the theoretical background of conservative fields . Based on this knowledge and via solving the geodetic boundary value problem they are able to establish analytical descriptions of the Earth gravity field in form of series expansion. Students are able to treat this problems both in spatial sperical and ellipsoidal coordinate systems.

Newtonian Potential,Theorems of Green and Gauss, Attraction of lines, surfaces and rigid bodies, Spherical and ellipsoidal harmonics. Geodetic applications of the theoretical content.

The learning contents are provided by a thorough  discussion and explanation of the accompanyed lecture notes. In addition, numerical examples are integrated to deepen the understanding of the learning contents.

A script covering the learning contents is available.

Participation in weekly repetitions of learning contents and predominately final oral exam

Zu dieser Lehrveranstaltung wird ein Skriptum angeboten

Mathematics, Physics, Higher Geodesy