Introduction to Plasmas in the Laboratory, Space, and Engineering

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

(Same as Electrical and Computer Engineering M185 and Physics M122.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, eight hours. Requisites: Physics 1A, 1B, and 1C (may be taken concurrently). 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.