EART 290Q – PHYSICS OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM
Spring 2020 Class Notes
Email Prof. Nimmo (fnimmo@ucsc.edu) if you have questions
Timing/Location: Mon/Fri from 1:30 to 3:10 in E&MS D258 except as noted below.
Course Goals: To provide a quantitative, graduate-level investigation of the physical processes controlling the origin, evolution and state of bodies in the outer solar system, especially icy satellites.
Texts: Various, but Turcotte and Schubert Geodynamics and Murray and Dermott Solar System Dynamics are the two essentials.
Week 1 (Tu 21 Jan A340 11:40; Fri 24 Jan 1:30)
Heat transfer (notes) Problem Set #1 Solutions
Week 2 (Mo 27 Jan 1:30; Fri 31 Jan 1:30)
Convection (notes) Problem Set #2 Solutions
Week 3 (Mo 3 Feb 1:30; Fri 7 Feb 1:30)
Rheology (notes) Problem Set #3 Solutions
Week 4 (Mo 10 Feb 1:30; Fri TBD)
Tides (notes)
Week 5 (Tu 18 Feb 11:30; Fri 21 Feb 1:30)
Tides & orbits (notes) Problem Set #4 Solutions
Week 6 (Mo 24 Feb 1:30; Fri 28 Feb 1:30)
Cassini states and librations (notes)
Week 7 (Mo 2 Mar 1:30; Fri 6 Feb 1:30)
Shape & gravity (notes) Problem Set #5 Solutions
Week 8 (Mo 9 Mar 1:30; Tu 10 Mar 11:30)
Reorientation / true polar wander (notes) KISS presentation on tides