CHEM M120
Soft Matter Laboratory
Also listed as PHYSICS M180G: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 8 courses long before CHEM M120. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for CHEM M120 in Spring 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 3B, PHYSICS 105A, PHYSICS 110A, PHYSICS 1BH, and PHYSICS 1CH, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Physics M180G.) Lecture, 90 minutes; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: Physics 110B, 115A. 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.
Sections in Spring 2027
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