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
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