PHYSICS 242A · PHYS 242AAdvanced Solid-State Theory

Physics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Many body methods in solid-state physics.

When it runs

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 241A, 241B, 241C (may be taken concurrently).

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

PHYSICS 242A

PHYSICS 241ASolid-State Physics
- PHYSICS 140AIntroduction to Solid-State Physics
  - PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 140BQuantum States of Matter
  - PHYSICS 112Thermal Physicsanother path to it
  - PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics3 more beneath
- PHYSICS 215AStatistical Physics
- PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanics
  - PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
  - PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanics
PHYSICS 241BSolid State Physics
- PHYSICS 241ASolid-State Physicsanother path to it
PHYSICS 241CSolid State Physics
- PHYSICS 241BSolid State Physicsanother path to it

3 direct requisites. Showing 14 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

PHYSICS 242A

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisites: courses 241A, 241B, 241C (may be taken concurrently).

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

confidence 1.00 · from text

all of

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

PHYSICS 242A

PHYSICS 241ASolid-State Physics
- PHYSICS 140AIntroduction to Solid-State Physics
  - PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 140BQuantum States of Matter
  - PHYSICS 112Thermal Physicsanother path to it
  - PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics3 more beneath
- PHYSICS 215AStatistical Physics
- PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanics
  - PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
  - PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanics
PHYSICS 241BSolid State Physics
- PHYSICS 241ASolid-State Physicsanother path to it
PHYSICS 241CSolid State Physics
- PHYSICS 241BSolid State Physicsanother path to it

3 direct requisites. Showing 14 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.