PHYSICS at Ohio 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 PHYSICS 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 55 PHYSICS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 24 more PHYSICS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 5 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 7502

  1. MATH 2174Linear Algebra and Differential Equations for Engineers
  2. PHYSICS 5500Quantum Mechanics
  3. PHYSICS 5501Quantum Mechanics II
  4. PHYSICS 7501Quantum Mechanics 1
  5. PHYSICS 7502Quantum Mechanics 2

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 2095

  1. MATH 1151Calculus I
  2. MATH 1152Calculus II
  3. PHYSICS 1251E&M, Waves, Optics, Modern Physics

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 2300

  1. MATH 1151Calculus I
  2. MATH 1152Calculus II
  3. PHYSICS 1261FEH Physics: E&M, Optics, Modern Physics

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 5801

  1. MATH 2153Calculus III
  2. PHYSICS 2301Intermediate Mechanics II
  3. PHYSICS 5800Engineering Physics Design I

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PHYSICS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHYSICS yet.

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Department events

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