I. Course Objective:
Study the propagation and applications of sound in the ocean

II. Pre-requisite: Engineering Mathmatics

III. Course Outline:

Wk# TOPICS
1 Ocean and Seabed Acoustics: A Physicist`s Perspective
2-3 Elementary Solutions and Basic Acoustic Quantities
4 Plane Wave Reflection from Planar Boundaries Chap 3
5-6 Acoustic Sources and Green`s Function
7 Mid-term
8-10 The Method of Normal Modes and Adiabatic Modes
11-12 The Hankel Transform: A Unified Approach to Wave
Propagation in Horizontal Stratified Media
13-16 Application of Sound in the Ocean Chap 4,5,6 (Ref.2)
17 Final Exam

IV. Evaluation：
Final exam (40%), Mid-term (40%), Homework (20%)

V. TEXT BOOK：
George V. Frisk, Ocean and Seabed Acoustics: A Theory of Wave
Propagation,Prentice Hall, Inc, 1994.

VI.Reference:
1. F. Jensen, W. Kupperman, M. Porter, and H. Schmidt,
Computational Ocean Acoustics, AIP Press, 1993
(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Ocean-Engineering/13- 853Computational-Ocean-AcousticsSpring2003/LectureNotes/index.htm)
2. Ira Dyer, Class notes of `Fundamentals and Applications of
Underwater Sound`, 13.851 MIT course
3. Ocean Acoustics Library (http://www.hlsresearch.com/oalib/)
4. Discovery of Sound in the Sea
(http://www.dosits.org/gallery/intro.htm)