CHEM C126AComputational Methods for Chemists
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Covers some basics of scientific coding. Introduction to advanced applications provided through commercially available computational packages. Includes quantum mechanical techniques for chemistry, reactivity, spectroscopy, solid state calculations; statistical mechanical techniques for chemistry and biochemistry; python coding, basic algorithms, machine learning, and numerical techniques. Concurrently scheduled with course C226A.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
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, 113A, Mathematics 33A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CHEM C126A
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced
- CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- CHEM 14BEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II—Enhanced
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- CHEM 20AHChemical Structure (Honors)
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- 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 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
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