UTSA-SwRI Space Physics
Graduate Program

PHY 7703 TOPICS IN SPACE PHYSICS

2020-09-09T21:00:07+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topics may include the following: Topic 1: Heliospheric Physics. The connection between the Sun and solar wind. Formation of transient events such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), co-rotating interaction regions, solar energetic particles, plasma waves, pickup ions and mass loading, anomalous cosmic rays, heliospheric boundaries and interaction with the local interstellar medium, energetic neutral atoms (ENAs). Topic 2: Magnetospheric Physics. Earth’s bow shock, magnetopause, magnetotail, plasma sheet, ring current and plasmasphere. Current systems, reconnection, magnetospheric storms and substorms, ionospheric interactions, aurora borealis. The geocorona and [...]

PHY 7703 TOPICS IN SPACE PHYSICS2020-09-09T21:00:07+00:00

PHY 6623 SPACE PHYSICS LABORATORY

2020-09-09T20:59:55+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Vacuum systems, detectors, charged and neutral particle instruments, magnetic and electric field instruments, imagers (optical, UV, X-ray), instrument control and on-board data processing systems, spacecraft systems, data processing and analysis.  

PHY 6623 SPACE PHYSICS LABORATORY2020-09-09T20:59:55+00:00

PHY 6403 FUNDAMENTALS OF SPACE PHYSICS

2020-09-09T20:59:42+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. The Sun, solar models, solar and stellar winds, heliosphere and astrospheres, synthesis of elements in the Sun and stars, solar system composition and cosmic abundances, terrestrial magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere, comparative planetary magnetospheres and atmospheres.  

PHY 6403 FUNDAMENTALS OF SPACE PHYSICS2020-09-09T20:59:42+00:00

PHY 6123 PLASMA PHYSICS AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS (MHD)

2020-09-09T21:10:54+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, PHY 5103 and PHY 5203, or consent of instructor. Plasma equations, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), waves and instabilities in two-fluid model, Vlasov and Fokker-Planck equations, Landau damping, turbulence in plasmas, radiation in plasmas, quasi-linear theory, wave-particle interaction, kinetic theory in space plasmas.

PHY 6123 PLASMA PHYSICS AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS (MHD)2020-09-09T21:10:54+00:00

PHY 7903 TOPICS IN ASTROPHYSICS

2020-09-09T21:04:52+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topics may include the following: Topic 1: Stellar Astrophysics. Advanced discussion of one or more topics from: stellar structure, physics of accretion disks, physics of star formation and the interstellar medium, structure of collapsed stars and supernova remnants, radiative transport and photoionization. Topic 2: Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics. Density wave theory and structure of spiral galaxies. Active galaxies, clusters of galaxies, large-scale structure. Topic 3: Cosmology. Basics of general relativity. The cosmological principle and Friedmann models, thermal history of the universe, structure formation, the cosmic microwave [...]

PHY 7903 TOPICS IN ASTROPHYSICS2020-09-09T21:04:52+00:00

PHY 6953 INDEPENDENT STUDY

2020-09-09T21:04:31+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission in writing (form available) of the instructor and the student’s Graduate Advisor of Record. Independent reading, research, discussion, and/or writing under the direction of a faculty member. For students needing specialized work not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to the degree.

PHY 6953 INDEPENDENT STUDY2020-09-09T21:04:31+00:00

PHY 6613 METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS

2020-09-09T21:04:58+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. This course is aimed at training graduate students in the basic aspects of experimental physics, such as instrumentation, data acquisition, and statistical treatment of data and error analysis, introduction to modern equipment control and data acquisition with LabVIEW, equipment design, detectors and interfaces.

PHY 6613 METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS2020-09-09T21:04:58+00:00

PHY 6413 FUNDAMENTALS OF ASTRONOMY

2020-09-09T21:04:10+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Photometry, stellar models, variable stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, supernovae, cosmic rays, galaxies and galactic structure, and introduction to cosmology.

PHY 6413 FUNDAMENTALS OF ASTRONOMY2020-09-09T21:04:10+00:00

PHY 6133 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC WRITING

2020-09-09T21:02:45+00:00

3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Methods to overcome resistance to writing and approach to become productive scientific writers. Writing methods and techniques for manuscript, dissertation, thesis preparation. Fundamentals of funding proposal writing. Critical reading and reviewing.

PHY 6133 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC WRITING2020-09-09T21:02:45+00:00
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