PHYSICS at University of California, Los Angeles

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHYSICS coursework.

• MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesopens 40 courses (4.8 directly)
• MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesopens 38 courses (2.5 directly)
• PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsopens 37 courses (16 directly)
• MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesopens 36 courses (4.5 directly)
• PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsopens 35 courses (14 directly)
• MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applicationsopens 34 courses (1 directly)

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 78 PHYSICS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 77 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.

• 16 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 242C

  1. MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
  2. MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
  3. MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
  4. PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
  5. PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
  6. PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methods
  7. PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
  8. PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
  9. PHYSICS 115BQuantum Mechanics
  10. PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics
  11. PHYSICS 140AIntroduction to Solid-State Physics
  12. PHYSICS 241ASolid-State Physics
  13. PHYSICS 241BSolid State Physics
  14. PHYSICS 241CSolid State Physics
  15. PHYSICS 242AAdvanced Solid-State Theory
  16. PHYSICS 242CTopology of Condensed Matter

• 12 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 128

  1. MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
  2. MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
  3. MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables

• 7 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 226D

  1. PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
  2. PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanics
  3. PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanics

• 6 courses deep, ending at PHYSICS 237B

  1. PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
  2. PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanics
  3. PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanics

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