PHYSICS M180G · PHYS M180GSoft Matter Laboratory
Physics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Chemistry M120.) Students gain experience of conducting independent research in experimental biological physics. Construction of modern microscope. Use of microscope to image biological specimens. Students learn optics, diffraction, imaging, microscopy, computational physics, and/or fluorescent labeling.
P/NP or 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 110B, 115A.
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PHYSICS M180G
- PHYSICS 110BElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 105BAnalytic Mechanics
- PHYSICS 110AElectricity and Magnetism
- PHYSICS 115AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 17Modern Physics
- 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)1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1CHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)
- PHYSICS 32Mathematical Methods
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 105AAnalytic Mechanics
2 direct requisites. Showing 24 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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