Rigorous presentation of fundamentals of classical thermodynamics. Principles of statistical thermodynamics: probability, ensembles, partition functions, independent molecules, and perfect gas. Applications of classical and statistical thermodynamics selected from diatomic and polyatomic gases, solid and fluid states, phase equilibria, electric and magnetic effects, ortho-para hydrogen, chemical equilibria, reaction rates, imperfect gas, nonelectrolyte and electrolyte solutions, surface phenomena, high polymers, gravitation. May be concurrently scheduled with course C223A.
Letter grading.
When it runs 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 110A, 110B or 156, 113A, Mathematics 33A, with grades of C– or better.
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CHEM C123A
CHEM 110A Physical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics 6 more beneath CHEM 14A General Chemistry for Life Scientists I MATH 3A Calculus for Life Sciences Students another path to it MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it CHEM 14AE General Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced LIFESCI 30A Mathematics for Life Scientists another path to it MATH 3A Calculus for Life Sciences Students another path to it MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it PHYSICS 1A Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics another path to it CHEM 14B General Chemistry for Life Scientists II 1 more beneath CHEM 14A General Chemistry for Life Scientists I another path to it CHEM 14AE General Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced another path to it CHEM 14BE General Chemistry for Life Scientists II—Enhanced 1 more beneath CHEM 14A General Chemistry for Life Scientists I another path to it CHEM 14AE General Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced another path to it MATH 3C Ordinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students MATH 3B Calculus for Life Sciences Students another path to it MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it CHEM 110A Physical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics another path to it CHEM 113A Physical Chemistry: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics another path to it MATH 31B Integration and Infinite Series another path to it MATH 32A Calculus of Several Variables another path to it MATH 3B Calculus for Life Sciences Students MATH 3A Calculus for Life Sciences Students 1 more beneath MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus 1 more beneath MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it CHEM 113A Physical Chemistry: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 5 more beneath CHEM 14A General Chemistry for Life Scientists I another path to it CHEM 14AE General Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced another path to it MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it PHYSICS 1A Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it MATH 31B Integration and Infinite Series another path to it MATH 32A Calculus of Several Variables another path to it MATH 32A Calculus of Several Variables another path to it PHYSICS 1AH Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors) MATH 31A Differential and Integral Calculus another path to it MATH 31B Integration and Infinite Series another path to it MATH 32B Calculus of Several Variables another path to it PHYSICS 1B Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields MATH 31B Integration and Infinite Series another path to it PHYSICS 1A Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics another path to it MATH 33A Linear Algebra and Applications another path to it PHYSICS 1BH Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors) MATH 31B Integration and Infinite Series another path to it PHYSICS 1A Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics another path to it CHEM 153A Biochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism CHEM 14D Organic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals 1 more beneath CHEM 30B Organic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy 1 more beneath 5 direct requisites. Showing 60 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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CHEM C123A
CHEM C123B Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics with Laboratory II 1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.