PHYSICS M122
Introduction to Plasmas in the Laboratory, Space, and Engineering
Also listed as EC ENGR M185, EPS SCI M156: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.34
Average grade awarded in PHYSICS M122. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
58%
of the 33 letter grades
D, F or W
3.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 33 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.05 to 3.61.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 12.1%
- A 10 · 30.3%
- A- 5 · 15.2%
- B+ 2 · 6.1%
- B 4 · 12.1%
- B- 4 · 12.1%
- C+ 2 · 6.1%
- C- 1 · 3.0%
- F 1 · 3.0%
Percentages are of the 33 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, TROY A reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.61 | 17 · | 1 | 65% | - | not teaching it |
| MORI, WARREN B reviews ↗ | 3.21 | 3.05 | 16 · | 1 | 50% | light | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2022.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences M156 and Electrical and Computer Engineering M185.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: course 110B or Electrical and Computer Engineering 101A. Senior-level introductory course on electrodynamics of charged particles and their collective behavior in plasmas in laboratory, near-Earth space and astrophysical settings. Covers selected applications taken from fusion energy, space weather, materials processing, generation of coherent radiation and particle accelerators. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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