EPS SCI 240Space 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.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
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
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics
- PHYSICS 115BQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 210AElectromagnetic Theory
2 direct requisites. Showing 20 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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