MAT SCI 210 · MSE 210Diffraction Methods in Science of Materials
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Theory of diffraction of waves (X rays, electrons, and neutrons) in crystalline and noncrystalline materials. Long- and short-range order in crystals, structural effects of plastic deformation, solid-state transformations, arrangements of atoms in liquids and amorphous solids.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 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
Requisite: course 110.
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MAT SCI 210
- MAT SCI 110Introduction to Materials Characterization A (Crystal Structure, Nanostructures, and X-Ray Scattering)
- MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields3 more beneath
1 direct requisite. Showing 7 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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No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.