PHYSICS C187B · PHYS C187BBiological Physics II: Life in Motion
Physics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Nonequilibrium phenomena. Application of mechanics, hydrodynamics, diffusion, and electrical transport to dynamical phenomena. Macroscopic phenomena: swimming, flying, thermoregulation, blood circulation, breathing, electrical transport along membranes. Physics of cells: Brownian motion, molecular motors, and cytoskeleton. Concurrently scheduled with course C287B.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 105A, 110A, 115A, C187A, Chemistry 110A, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology 100.
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PHYSICS C187B
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- 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)2 more beneath
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity2 more beneath
- 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)2 more beneath
- PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 17Modern Physics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS C187ABiological Physics I: Life at Rest
- MCD BIO M140Cancer Cell Biology
- MCD BIO 165ABiology of Cells
- MCD BIO 100Introduction to Cell Biology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
6 direct requisites. Showing 60 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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