EPS SCI 240
Space Plasma Physics
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Physics of plasmas in space, including treatments based on magnetohydrodynamics and kinetic theory. Applications to solar or planetary winds, steady-state magnetospheres, magnetospheric convection, substorm processes, magnetic merging, field-aligned currents and magnetosphere/ionosphere coupling, ring current dynamics, and wave particle instabilities.
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Requisites
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Requisite: course 200C or Physics 210A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPS SCI 240
- EPS SCI 200CIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics III: Plasmas —Aeronomy and Interplanetary Medium
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 110BElectricity and Magnetism
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