Physics at Old Dominion 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 87 PHYS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 40 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.

• 8 courses deep, ending at PHYS 411

  1. MATH 102MCollege Algebra
  2. MATH 166Precalculus I and II
  3. MATH 211Calculus I
  4. MATH 212Calculus II
  5. PHYS 227NHonors: University Physics II
  6. PHYS 319Analytical Mechanics
  7. PHYS 452Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
  8. PHYS 411Introduction to Atomic Physics

• 7 courses deep, ending at PHYS 413

  1. MATH 102MCollege Algebra
  2. MATH 166Precalculus I and II
  3. MATH 211Calculus I

• 7 courses deep, ending at PHYS 417

  1. MATH 102MCollege Algebra
  2. MATH 166Precalculus I and II
  3. MATH 211Calculus I

• 6 courses deep, ending at PHYS 468W

  1. MATH 102MCollege Algebra
  2. MATH 166Precalculus I and II
  3. MATH 211Calculus I

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PHYS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHYS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

Physics does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Old Dominion campus feed.