CHEM C215BAdvanced Quantum Chemistry with Laboratory II
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Recommended: knowledge of differential equations equivalent to Mathematics 134 or 135 or Physics 131 and of analytic mechanics equivalent to Physics 105A. Students entering course C215A are normally expected to take course C215B 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 C115B.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 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 113A, C215A or Physics 115B, Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, 32B, 33A, with grades of C– or better.
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CHEM C215B
- 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)
- CHEM C215AAdvanced Quantum Chemistry with Laboratory I
- CHEM 110BTopics in Physical Chemistry
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 115BQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
8 direct requisites. Showing 56 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 C215B
- CHEM C215CAdvanced Quantum Chemistry: Applications
- CHEM M223CNonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Biophysics
- PHYSICS M215DNonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Biophysics
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.