CHEM C115AAdvanced Quantum Chemistry with Laboratory I
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: knowledge of differential equations equivalent to Mathematics 134 or 135 or Physics 131, and of analytic mechanics equivalent to Physics 105A. Course C115A or Physics 115B with grade of C– or better is requisite to C115B. Students entering course C115A are normally expected to take course C115B in following term. Designed for chemistry students with serious interest in quantum chemistry. Postulates and systematic development of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics; expansion theorems; wells; oscillators; angular momentum; hydrogen atom; matrix techniques; approximation methods; time dependent problems; atoms; spectroscopy; magnetic resonance; chemical bonding. May be concurrently scheduled with course C215A.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 110B, 113A, Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, with grades of C– or better.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CHEM C115A
- CHEM 110BTopics in Physical Chemistry
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
7 direct requisites. Showing 52 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
CHEM C115A
- CHEM C115BAdvanced Quantum Chemistry with Laboratory II
- CHEM C115CAdvanced Quantum Chemistry: Applications
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.