Earth Science Modeling

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Credits 4. 3 Lecture Hours. 3 Lab Hours. Techniques for building, solving and analyzing numerical models applied to a wide variety of problems in geology, geochemistry, geobiology and geophysics; derivation and scaling of conservation laws; finite difference and finite element techniques; programming in MATLAB or a higher-level language. Prerequisites: MATH 151 ; MATH 152 ; junior or senior classification.