Monday, September 11, 2006
Welcome to the class
Here is your first homework. You will be graded on this.
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1. Please figure out what it takes to subscribe to this blog, and then do so. Send me an email if you have trouble. Make sure you are checking posts daily by the first day of classes (Thursday Sept. 21) and that you know how to submit a post.
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I will make announcements on this blog instead of saying blah-blah-blah in class. (I do reserve the right to say blah-blah-de-blah however.) We shall use this forum to discuss the readings, even if only to point out things you want to talk about in the seminar. Here are a couple of short example posts:
"Regarding figure 3b; can we discuss how the logarithmic graph shows the vapor/melt phase boundary as approximately linear?"
"Check out the picture of the Opportunity rover well inside of Victoria crater!
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tm-opportunity/images/MERB_930_br2.jpg
Looks like they're going to make it into the big pit."
Each of you is required to contribute a couple of useful or interesting posts during the course of the seminar. They can be much longer than the above. That is the beauty of the internet, you can ramble on for pages and we won't mind. Heck start your own blog about how Lange and Ahrens (1982) Brittle Fragmentation of Gabbro changed your life.
One graded requirement for this course is for you to "adopt" a number of the papers that we read. This should be a familiar process to any of you who have taken seminar classes; we take turns leading the discussion. The papers you plan to be leading, those would be good ones to post about.
This is not a seminar "about" the readings however. The readings have been chosen to be about the theme of high strain rate planetary mechanics. So don't worry about departing from the readings, either in class or in your posts to this blog.
Each time we will meet to give careful review to 2-3 papers. Each paper is assigned to one of you, so your job is to come to class jazzed enough about your paper that you can keep the discussion moving. If the discussion comes to a dead end, you are not doing your job!
As recompense, discussion leaders of the day will be awarded whatever fancy beverage of their choosing at the coffee cart, triple mocha piled high with whip cream or what have you. Just try to avoid delirium.
We are really going to get into these readings. Two hours (9-11) will be devoted to going over the past week's readings, and the last hour (until noon) will be devoted to previewing the upcoming readings. Don't worry, there will be a long break in there somewhere. So, each paper will get discussed twice, once in preview (led by me) and once after we've read it (led by you).
Everybody participates! I urge you all to skim the readings before my preview -- indeed skim all of them once you print them out -- so that you benefit from the half hour preview. This is especially true for those of you leading the discussion the following week.
I expect you to keep the readings in a binder and bring them all with you to class each week.
Logistics will be discussed 9-10 Friday Sept. 22. Meet in D236. The nominal class time are Mondays 9-12, in D236.
Impact craters are, in my view, the sin qua non of high strain rate planetary processes, and thus are given special coverage in this class. But high strain rate processes also include landslides and flows, volcanic eruptions, pseudotachylites, larger scale collisions, mass wasting, and channel formation. If you have a favorite topic or better yet a chapter or paper you'd like to have discussed, please send it to me, preferably now rather than later.
About 20 readings of various kinds (papers and book chapters) constitute the primary reading. There are about 10 auxiliary papers which I encourage you all to read. These will be linked to in a message to follow later this week.
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Logistics and Schedule:
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There are three back to back conferences at the start of the quarter! One in Santa Cruz (contact me if interested in asteroids and comets), one in Pasadena (DPS), and one at NASA Ames (LCROSS site selection). So there will be no class between and including October 4 (Wednesday) and October 16 (Monday).
How to salvage this train wreck? Make lemonade! First and foremost, I recommend all students taking this class try to attend the LCROSS meeting at NASA Ames, http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lcross2006/home.shtml. There is free registration but you need to register; don't just "show up". The workshop involves a probe that is going to crash into a permanently shadowed crater on the Moon in 2008, to find out if there is water. The asteroids meeting is also free to registered scientists, including students, and is highly recommended (since I am organizing it!), although the topic is not high strain rate processes. See http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/recon2006/recon2006.3rd.shtml
The assigned class meeting time is 9am-noon Mondays. Too bad if that sucks. Show up Friday 9/22 at 9 if you want to arm wrestle about it. All meetings will be in D236.
I think the following is the schedule. Tell me of any obvious errors before the first meeting Friday.
Fri Sep 22: 9-10 am (initial meeting to discuss readings & logistics)
Mon Sep 25: 9-noon (full class meeting)
Mon Oct 2: 9-noon (full class meeting)
Wed Oct 4-6: Workshop on Spacecraft Reconnaissance of Asteroid and Comet Interiors, Santa Cruz
Mon Oct 9-13: Division of Planetary Sciences of the AAS, Pasadena
Mon Oct 16: LCROSS Site Selection, Mountain View
Fri Oct 20: 9-noon (special full class meeting)
Mon Oct 23: 9-noon (nominal from here on)
Mon Oct 30: 9-noon
Mon Nov 6: 9-noon
Mon Nov 13: 9-noon
Mon Nov 20: 9-noon
Mon Nov 27: 9-noon
Fri Dec 1: 9-11 (final academic meeting)
Mon Dec 5: afternoon cook-out / bowling
Erik
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1. Please figure out what it takes to subscribe to this blog, and then do so. Send me an email if you have trouble. Make sure you are checking posts daily by the first day of classes (Thursday Sept. 21) and that you know how to submit a post.
====
I will make announcements on this blog instead of saying blah-blah-blah in class. (I do reserve the right to say blah-blah-de-blah however.) We shall use this forum to discuss the readings, even if only to point out things you want to talk about in the seminar. Here are a couple of short example posts:
"Regarding figure 3b; can we discuss how the logarithmic graph shows the vapor/melt phase boundary as approximately linear?"
"Check out the picture of the Opportunity rover well inside of Victoria crater!
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/tm-opportunity/images/MERB_930_br2.jpg
Looks like they're going to make it into the big pit."
Each of you is required to contribute a couple of useful or interesting posts during the course of the seminar. They can be much longer than the above. That is the beauty of the internet, you can ramble on for pages and we won't mind. Heck start your own blog about how Lange and Ahrens (1982) Brittle Fragmentation of Gabbro changed your life.
One graded requirement for this course is for you to "adopt" a number of the papers that we read. This should be a familiar process to any of you who have taken seminar classes; we take turns leading the discussion. The papers you plan to be leading, those would be good ones to post about.
This is not a seminar "about" the readings however. The readings have been chosen to be about the theme of high strain rate planetary mechanics. So don't worry about departing from the readings, either in class or in your posts to this blog.
Each time we will meet to give careful review to 2-3 papers. Each paper is assigned to one of you, so your job is to come to class jazzed enough about your paper that you can keep the discussion moving. If the discussion comes to a dead end, you are not doing your job!
As recompense, discussion leaders of the day will be awarded whatever fancy beverage of their choosing at the coffee cart, triple mocha piled high with whip cream or what have you. Just try to avoid delirium.
We are really going to get into these readings. Two hours (9-11) will be devoted to going over the past week's readings, and the last hour (until noon) will be devoted to previewing the upcoming readings. Don't worry, there will be a long break in there somewhere. So, each paper will get discussed twice, once in preview (led by me) and once after we've read it (led by you).
Everybody participates! I urge you all to skim the readings before my preview -- indeed skim all of them once you print them out -- so that you benefit from the half hour preview. This is especially true for those of you leading the discussion the following week.
I expect you to keep the readings in a binder and bring them all with you to class each week.
Logistics will be discussed 9-10 Friday Sept. 22. Meet in D236. The nominal class time are Mondays 9-12, in D236.
Impact craters are, in my view, the sin qua non of high strain rate planetary processes, and thus are given special coverage in this class. But high strain rate processes also include landslides and flows, volcanic eruptions, pseudotachylites, larger scale collisions, mass wasting, and channel formation. If you have a favorite topic or better yet a chapter or paper you'd like to have discussed, please send it to me, preferably now rather than later.
About 20 readings of various kinds (papers and book chapters) constitute the primary reading. There are about 10 auxiliary papers which I encourage you all to read. These will be linked to in a message to follow later this week.
================
Logistics and Schedule:
================
There are three back to back conferences at the start of the quarter! One in Santa Cruz (contact me if interested in asteroids and comets), one in Pasadena (DPS), and one at NASA Ames (LCROSS site selection). So there will be no class between and including October 4 (Wednesday) and October 16 (Monday).
How to salvage this train wreck? Make lemonade! First and foremost, I recommend all students taking this class try to attend the LCROSS meeting at NASA Ames, http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lcross2006/home.shtml. There is free registration but you need to register; don't just "show up". The workshop involves a probe that is going to crash into a permanently shadowed crater on the Moon in 2008, to find out if there is water. The asteroids meeting is also free to registered scientists, including students, and is highly recommended (since I am organizing it!), although the topic is not high strain rate processes. See http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/recon2006/recon2006.3rd.shtml
The assigned class meeting time is 9am-noon Mondays. Too bad if that sucks. Show up Friday 9/22 at 9 if you want to arm wrestle about it. All meetings will be in D236.
I think the following is the schedule. Tell me of any obvious errors before the first meeting Friday.
Fri Sep 22: 9-10 am (initial meeting to discuss readings & logistics)
Mon Sep 25: 9-noon (full class meeting)
Mon Oct 2: 9-noon (full class meeting)
Wed Oct 4-6: Workshop on Spacecraft Reconnaissance of Asteroid and Comet Interiors, Santa Cruz
Mon Oct 9-13: Division of Planetary Sciences of the AAS, Pasadena
Mon Oct 16: LCROSS Site Selection, Mountain View
Fri Oct 20: 9-noon (special full class meeting)
Mon Oct 23: 9-noon (nominal from here on)
Mon Oct 30: 9-noon
Mon Nov 6: 9-noon
Mon Nov 13: 9-noon
Mon Nov 20: 9-noon
Mon Nov 27: 9-noon
Fri Dec 1: 9-11 (final academic meeting)
Mon Dec 5: afternoon cook-out / bowling
Erik
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I wonder if you can do equations here. Hmmm, $4/3 \pi r^3 \rho$
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