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EPS SCI 155Planetary Physics

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

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Formation of solar nebula; origin of planets and their satellites; comets, asteroids, and meteorites; celestial mechanics and dynamics; physics of planetary interiors, surfaces, and atmospheres.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisites: Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, Physics 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH).

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all of
  • MATH 31A
  • MATH 31B
  • MATH 32A
  • PHYSICS 1A
  • PHYSICS 1B
  • one of
    • PHYSICS 1C
    • all of
      • PHYSICS 1AH
      • PHYSICS 1BH
      • PHYSICS 1CH
  • · parenthetical alternative "(or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH)" in "1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH)" — scope is a best reading

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EPS SCI 155

  • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
    • MATH 1Precalculus
  • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
  • PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
    • MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
  • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
    • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
      • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
    • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • 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 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 33BDifferential Equations
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it

9 direct requisites. Showing 39 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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  • Spring 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.