CHEM M120Soft Matter Laboratory
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Physics M180G.) Students gain experience of conducting independent research in experimental biological physics. Construction of modern microscope. Use of microscope to image biological specimens. Students learn optics, diffraction, imaging, microscopy, computational physics, and/or fluorescent labeling.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Physics 110B, 115A.
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CHEM M120
- PHYSICS 110BElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 17Modern Physics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methods
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
2 direct requisites. Showing 24 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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