PTYS505A
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PTYS505A - Principles of Planetary Physics
Course ID
028976
Course Description
Introductory physics of planetary and interplanetary fluids, plasmas, and solid bodies. Thermodynamics, kinetic theory, fluid dynamics, transport theory, rotational and tidal response theory and orbital mechanics, applied to solar system objects. Students will be expected to be familiar with vector calculus and ordinary and partial differential equations. In addition, students will be expected to know, or learn, a programming language such as C, Fortran, IDL or MATLAB.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Graduate
Course Requisites
Classical and quantum mechanics at the level of PHYS 151 and PHYS 242.
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No