EC ENGR 285A · EE 285APlasma Waves and Instabilities
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Wave phenomena in plasmas described by macroscopic fluid equations. Microwave propagation, plasma oscillations, ion acoustic waves, cyclotron waves, hydromagnetic waves, drift waves. Rayleigh/Taylor, Kelvin/Helmholtz, universal, and streaming instabilities. Application to experiments in fully and partially ionized gases.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 101A, and M185 or Physics M122.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 285A
- EC ENGR 101AEngineering Electromagnetics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- EC ENGR M185Introduction to Plasmas in the Laboratory, Space, and Engineering
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativityanother path to it
- PHYSICS M122Introduction to Plasmas in the Laboratory, Space, and Engineering
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativityanother path to it
3 direct requisites. Showing 31 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EC ENGR 285A
- EC ENGR 285BAdvanced Plasma Waves and Instabilities
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.