EPS SCI M156
Introduction to Plasmas in the Laboratory, Space, and Engineering
Also listed as EC ENGR M185, PHYSICS M122: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
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(Same as Electrical and Computer Engineering M185 and Physics M122.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, eight hours. Requisite: Electrical and Computer Engineering 101A or Physics 110B. 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.
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