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EPS SCI 228Introduction to Planetary Dynamos

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Designed for graduate students. Basic principles of planetary dynamo generation. Planetary core dynamics and core convection; mean field dynamo theory; kinematic dynamo theory; survey of modeling techniques and results.

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Requisites: courses 200A, 200B, 200C.

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  • EPS SCI 200A
  • EPS SCI 200B
  • EPS SCI 200C

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EPS SCI 228

  • EPS SCI 200AIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics I: Solid Earth and Planets
    • PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methods
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics2 more beneath
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)2 more beneath
      • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applicationsanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields1 more beneath
      • MATH 33BDifferential Equationsanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
    • PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanicsanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetism
      • PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methodsanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 112Thermal Physicsanother path to it
  • EPS SCI 200BIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics II: Oceans and Atmospheres
    • PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methodsanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanicsanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetismanother path to it
  • EPS SCI 200CIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics III: Plasmas —Aeronomy and Interplanetary Medium
    • PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
      • MATH 33BDifferential Equations1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methodsanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 110BElectricity and Magnetism
      • PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
      • PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetismanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics
      • PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 115BQuantum Mechanics
    • PHYSICS 131Mathematical Methods of Physics
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
      • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications2 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)another path to it
      • MATH 33BDifferential Equationsanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity

3 direct requisites. Showing 36 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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  • Fall 2025
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026

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