Distilling thoughts onto a sheet of paper clarifies the central concepts of a topic. My first formal physics teacher, David Everitt at the College of Marin, allowed us to take one sheet of paper into the exams. Dr. Everitt provided a formula sheet including the equations and relations foundational to each course, and it was then our task to figure out what we individually needed for our sheets. The process of preparing sheets of formulas for exams became a central component of how I studied.

Here are some formula sheets I created for the physics courses at UCLA. Feel free to use them for personal and educational purposes.

Lower-division requirements:

• Physics 1A – Physics for Scientists and Engineers I
• Physics 1B – Physics for Scientists and Engineers II
• Physics 1C – Physics for Scientists and Engineers III
• Physics 17 – Modern Physics
• Physics 32 – Mathematical Methods

Upper-division core requirements:

• Physics 105A – Analytic Mechanics I
• Physics 105B – Analytic Mechanics II
• Physics 110A – Electricity and Magnetism I
• Physics 110B – Electricity and Magnetism II
• Physics 112 – Thermodynamics
• Physics 115A – Quantum Mechanics I
• Physics 115B – Quantum Mechanics II
• Physics 115C – Quantum Mechanics III

Here are some other formula sheets I made:

• Chemical Engineering 100 – Fundamentals
• Materials Science 122 – Electronic Materials Processing (midterm)
• Materials Science 122 – Electronic Materials Processing (final)
• Mathematics 120A – Differential Geometry
• Mathematics 151A – Numerical Methods
• Physics 117 – Electronics for Physics Measurement
• Physics 140A – Introduction to Solid-State Physics
• Physics 140B – Properties of Solids

Here are some course-related notes I wrote:

• Chemistry 30 – Organic Chemistry (hand written) and periodic table
• Mathematics 132 – Complex Analysis (hand written)
• Physics 127 – General Relativity (hand written)
• Physics 221B – Symmetries, Perturbation Theory, and Scattering
• Statistics 10 – Introduction to Statistical Reasoning

Here are some other notes I made as an undergraduate:

• Group Theory in Quantum Mechanics (Following Schensted)
• Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics (Following Griffiths)
• A Guide to the Bash Terminal on Mac and Linux

Please contact me if you find errors or typos.