Feb 12, 2025  
2024-2025 General Catalog 
  
2024-2025 General Catalog

PHYS 3040 - Space Weather–Dangers to the High-Tech World (QI)


QI Quantitative Intensive
3 credit(s)

Space weather can be as destructive to high technology as ordinary weather is to property and crops. Examines increasing vulnerability of society to events in space resulting from changes on the Sun and from human activity. Explores how we learn about space weather with satellites, radars, lidars, and numerical models.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of University Studies Quantitative Literacy (QL)  and Breadth Physical Sciences (BPS)  requirements

Repeatable for credit: No
Grade Mode: Standard