EPS SCI 152Physics of Earth
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: course 1 or 8. Crust-to-core tour of Earth and physics used to explore it. Isostasy, plate tectonics, mantle convection, and geodynamo as discovered with tools of elasticity, seismology, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Mathematics 33A, Physics 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH).
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured data- MATH 33A
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPS SCI 152
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
7 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 39 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.