Physics at University of Colorado Boulder

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate PHYS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 76 PHYS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 51 more PHYS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on PHYS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in PHYS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 12 courses deep, ending at PHYS 4710

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. APPM 1360Calculus 2 for Engineers
  4. APPM 2350Calculus 3 for Engineers
  5. APPM 3310Matrix Methods and Applications
  6. MATH 3430Ordinary Differential Equations
  7. PHYS 2210Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods 1
  8. PHYS 3210Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods 2
  9. PHYS 3220Quantum Mechanics 1
  10. PHYS 4410Quantum Mechanics 2
  11. ECEN 4700Quantum Forge I
  12. PHYS 4710Quantum Forge II

• 12 courses deep, ending at PHYS 5260

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. APPM 1360Calculus 2 for Engineers

• 11 courses deep, ending at PHYS 7650

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. APPM 1360Calculus 2 for Engineers

• 10 courses deep, ending at PHYS 7160

  1. MATH 1300Calculus 1
  2. APPM 1350Calculus 1 for Engineers
  3. APPM 1360Calculus 2 for Engineers

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PHYS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHYS yet.

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Department events

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