What are the prerequisites for plasma physics?

[osnarf]

Just curious what topics you would consider essential to understanding plasma physics. E&M seems obvious, but what else would you call prereqs?

 

[Rebooter]

Just curious what topics you would consider essential to understanding plasma physics. E&M seems obvious, but what else would you call prereqs?

Thermodynamics and Heat transfer should seem equally as obvious

 

[Visceral]

Just curious what topics you would consider essential to understanding plasma physics. E&M seems obvious, but what else would you call prereqs?

This courses is offered at my school and its only prerequisites are Partial Differential Equations and the calculus based intro E&M course.

 

[osnarf]

Thanks for your help everyone

Thermodynamics and Heat transfer should seem equally as obvious

Very true I thought about that later, what about statistical physis or quantum?

This courses is offered at my school and its only prerequisites are Partial Differential Equations and the calculus based intro E&M course.

Is that an undergrad class or grad?

Does anyone know what math is used, aside from the DE's mentioned and calc?

 

[Visceral]

Thanks for your help everyone



Very true I thought about that later, what about statistical physis or quantum?



Is that an undergrad class or grad?

Does anyone know what math is used, aside from the DE's mentioned and calc?

Grad.

PY 507 and 528

http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/crs_cat/PY.html

I was referring to 528. While it requires a less rigorous E&M prerequisite, it requires a higher level math. Its actually taught by the nuclear engineering department, so they usually have slightly different views of prerequisites than the physics department. I know a few people who have taken it concurrently with upper level E&M and said it wasn't needed as a prerequisite.