PHYSICS 241A · PHYS 241ASolid-State Physics
Physics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Symmetry, free electrons, electrons in periodic potential, experimental measurement of band structure and Fermi surface parameters, cohesive energy, lattice vibrations, thermal properties.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 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
Requisites: courses 140A, 140B, 215A, 221C.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHYSICS 241A
- PHYSICS 140AIntroduction to Solid-State Physics
- PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics
- PHYSICS 140BQuantum States of Matter
- PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 215AStatistical Physics
- PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanics
4 direct requisites. Showing 15 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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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PHYSICS 241A
- PHYSICS 241BSolid State Physics
- PHYSICS 241CSolid State Physics
- PHYSICS 242AAdvanced Solid-State Theory
- PHYSICS 242BAdvanced Solid-State Theory
- PHYSICS 242CTopology of Condensed Matter
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 13 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.