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PHYS 2CPhysics—Fluids, Waves, Thermodynamics, and Optics

4 units · PHYS · UC San Diego

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

None listed in the catalog.

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Fall (15 programs).

Required in (12)

  • Aerospace Engineering (B.S.)
  • Bioengineering: Bioinformatics (B.S.)
  • Biology with a Specialization in Bioinformatics (B.S.)
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Engineering (B.S.)
  • Electrical Engineering (B.S.)
  • Electrical Engineering and Society (B.A.)
  • Engineering Physics (B.S.)
  • Environmental Systems—Earth Sciences (B.S.)
  • Environmental Systems—Environmental Chemistry (B.S.)
  • Mechanical Engineering (B.S.)
  • Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (B.S.)

One of the options in (2)

  • Clinical Psychology (B.S.)
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (B.S.) (PC34)
What it opens up

Courses that list PHYS 2C as a prerequisite (28)

  • ASTR 18 Additional Topics in Classical Physics
  • BENG 130 Biotechnology Thermodynamics and Kinetics
  • BENG 141 Biomedical Optics and Imaging
  • CENG 134 Polymeric Materials
  • CHEM 100B Instrumental Chemistry Laboratory
  • CHEM 126A Physical Biochemistry I: Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biomolecules
  • CHEM 130 Chemical Physics: Quantum Mechanics
  • CHEM 131 Chemical Physics: Stat Thermo I
  • CHEM 134 Polymeric Materials
  • ECE 134 Electronic Materials Science of Integrated Circuits
  • EDS 105 Teaching and Learning Physics
  • MAE 11 Thermodynamics
  • MAE 119 Introduction to Renewable Energy: Solar and Wind
  • MAE 170 Experimental Techniques
  • NANO 134 Polymeric Materials
  • PHYS 170 Medical Instruments: Principles and Practice
  • PHYS 180 Teaching and Learning Physics
  • SIO 103 Introduction to Geophysics
  • SIO 106 Introduction to Hydrogeology
  • SIO 115 Ice and the Climate System
  • SIO 117 The Physical Basis of Global Warming
  • SIO 119 Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans
  • SIO 125 Biomechanics of Marine Life
  • SIO 143 Ocean Acidification
  • SIO 171 Introduction to Physical Oceanography
  • SIO 172 Physics of the Atmosphere
  • SIO 173 Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Climate
  • SIO 178 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics