Prerequisites: PHYS 211A
Description: Covers hydrodynamics, sound waves, turbu- lence, supersonic turbulence, magnetohydrodynam- ics, Alfven waves, extragalactic relativistic jets, super- sonic jets, galactic spiral structure and density-wave theory, accretion disk theory, Balbus-Hawley instabili- ty, and stellar winds. Students whose research is relat- ed to astrophysics receive a letter grade; other stu- dents receive a letter grade or
Credit: Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grade.