EPS SCI 136A

Applied Geophysics

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Recommended: course M171. Methods and knowledge involved in investigation of near-surface geophysics. Covers gravity fields, wave equations, seismic ray theory, reflection and refraction, seismic interpretation, basic earthquake source theory, and introduction to magnetic fields and electrical resistivity.

P/NP or letter grading.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course M71 or Civil and Environmental Engineering M20; Mathematics 3A, 3B, and 3C, or 31A, 31B, and 32A; Physics 1A, 1B, 4AL, and 4BL, or 5A and 5B.

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- EPS SCI M71
- C&EE M20
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  - PHYSICS 5A
  - PHYSICS 5B

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

EPS SCI 136A

EPS SCI M71Introduction to Computing for Geoscientists
C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
  - MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Studentsanother path to it
  - MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

EPS SCI 136A

EPS SCI 136BApplied Geophysics
EPS SCI 136CField Geophysics

2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.