Physics at Iowa State University

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 57 PHYS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 48 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.

• 10 courses deep, ending at PHYS 4210

  1. MATH 1660Calculus II
  2. MATH 1650Calculus I
  3. MATH 1630XElements of Calculus
  4. PHYS 2310Introduction to Classical Physics I
  5. PHYS 2320Introduction to Classical Physics II
  6. PHYS 2320LIntroduction to Classical Physics II Laboratory
  7. PHYS 3640Electricity and Magnetism I
  8. PHYS 3650Electricity and Magnetism II
  9. PHYS 4210Ultrafast Laser Science and Spectroscopy

• 9 courses deep, ending at PHYS 4320

  1. MATH 1660Calculus II
  2. MATH 1650Calculus I
  3. MATH 1630XElements of Calculus

• 6 courses deep, ending at PHYS 4800

  1. MATH 2670Elementary Differential Equations and Laplace Transforms
  2. MATH 2660Elementary Differential Equations
  3. MATH 3850Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHYS 4220

  1. MATH 1650Calculus I
  2. MATH 1660Calculus II
  3. MATH 2070Matrices and Linear Algebra

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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