Homework 2

Abstract:

This homework has three parts. In the theoretical part, you will derive analytical solutions to one-point and two-point ray tracing problems. In the computational part, you will experiment with traveltime computations with an eikonal solver and a field dataset from the Gulf of Mexico. In the programming part, you will implement your analytical solutions and investigate their accuracy.

Completing the computational part of this homework assignment requires

• Madagascar software environment available from
  http://www.ahay.org
• L^ATEX environment with SEGTeX available from
  http://www.ahay.org/wiki/SEGTeX

You are welcome to do the assignment on your personal computer by installing the required environments. In this case, you can obtain all homework assignments from the Madagascar repository by running

svn co https://github.com/ahay/src/trunk/book/geo384w/hw2

You can also do this assignment in the computer lab at the Department of Geological Sciences (JGB 3.216B).