EC ENGR 285B · EE 285BAdvanced Plasma Waves and Instabilities
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Interaction of intense electromagnetic waves with plasmas: waves in inhomogeneous and bounded plasmas, nonlinear wave coupling and damping, parametric instabilities, anomalous resistivity, shock waves, echoes, laser heating. Emphasis on experimental considerations and techniques.
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 M185, and 285A or Physics 222A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR 285B
- 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 Relativity
- EC ENGR 285APlasma Waves and Instabilities
- EC ENGR 101AEngineering Electromagnetics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativityanother path to it
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
- 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
- PHYSICS 222APlasma Physics
3 direct requisites. Showing 27 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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