PHYSICS 222A · PHYS 222APlasma Physics
Physics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Properties of Coulomb gas with and without magnetic field: equilibrium, oscillations, instabilities, fluctuations, collective phenomena, transport properties, and radiation. Description via single-particle orbit theory, magnetohydrodynamics, and kinetic equations of various types.
S/U 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
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PHYSICS 222A
- EC ENGR 285BAdvanced Plasma Waves and Instabilities
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.