PHYSICS 32 · PHYS 32Mathematical Methods
Physics · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Vectors and fields; operators and transformations; matrices, tensors, and differential forms; ordinary differential equations and integral theorems; Fourier transform.
P/NP or letter grading.
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Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 1A, 1B, 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, 1CH), Mathematics 32A, 32B, 33A. Corequisite: Mathematics 33B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.75 · from text- · parenthetical alternative "(or 1AH, 1BH, 1CH)" in "1C (or 1AH, 1BH, 1CH)" — scope is a best reading
BruinTree reads · Corequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHYSICS 32
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- 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)
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 33BDifferential Equations
10 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 38 courses over 3 levels. 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 32
- PHYSICS 17Modern Physics
- PHYSICS 18LModern Physics Laboratory
- ASTR 145High-Energy Astrophysics
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 170NComputational Physics and Astronomy Laboratory
- PHYSICS 114Mechanics of Wave Motion and Sound
- ASTR 143Planets and Exoplanets
- EPS SCI 200AIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics I: Solid Earth and Planetsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 170EIntroduction to Symbolic Computation
- PHYSICS C187ABiological Physics I: Life at Rest
- EPS SCI 200AIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics I: Solid Earth and Planets
- EPS SCI 228Introduction to Planetary Dynamos
- PHYSICS 110BElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 108Optical Physics
- PHYSICS 180EPlasma Physics Laboratory
- PHYSICS 144Polymer Physics
- PHYSICS 150Physics of Charged-Particle and Laser Beams
- EPS SCI 200AIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics I: Solid Earth and Planetsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 180FElementary Particle Laboratory
- PHYSICS C187BBiological Physics II: Life in Motion
- PHYSICS 112Thermal Physics
- PHYSICS 140AIntroduction to Solid-State Physics
- EPS SCI 200AIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics I: Solid Earth and Planetsanother path to it
- EPS SCI 200CIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics III: Plasmas —Aeronomy and Interplanetary Medium1 more beyond
- PHYSICS 235Quantum Simulation for Physics
- PHYSICS 128Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics
- PHYSICS 140BQuantum States of Matter
- CHEM M120Soft Matter Laboratory
- PHYSICS M180GSoft Matter Laboratory
- EPS SCI 200BIntroduction to Geophysics and Space Physics II: Oceans and Atmospheres
- PHYSICS 127General Relativity
- EPS SCI 211Mathematical Methods of Geophysics
8 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 60 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.