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Petroleum Geoscience Program: Offered by
Petroleum Geoscience Program: Offered by
PROGRAM
Offered by
GEOPHYSICS DEPARTMENT
IN COROPORATION WITH
GEOLOGY, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENTS
Gravity Surveying
Thus, to represent a
high-density ore body,
we need more point
masses per unit volume
than we would for the
lower density soil*.
Now, let's qualitatively
describe g by a ball as it is
dropped from a ladder. This
can be calculated by
measuring the time rate of
change of the speed of the
ball as it falls. The size of
the acceleration the ball
undergoes will be
proportional to the number
of close point masses that
are directly below it.