A&O SCI 250BSolar System Microscopic Plasma Processes
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Adiabatic charged particle dynamics; incoherent radiation processes; collective effects in plasma; propagation characteristics of electrostatic and electromagnetic waves; introduction to resonant interaction between charged particles and plasma waves.
S/U (for majors with consent of instructor after successful completion of written and oral comprehensive examination and for nonmajors at discretion of major department) or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course C205A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
A&O SCI 250B
- A&O SCI 257Radiation Belt Plasma Physics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.