Gravity, Periodic Motion and Oscillations, Mechanical Waves and Sound, Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field and Gauss’s Law, Electric Potential, DC circuits.

Prerequisites: Physics 7A with a grade of C- or better; Mathematics 2A-B or 3A-B or AP Math BC exam with a score of 3 or better.

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Paula Popescu
3.6
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PHYS7B . Popescu P F 1 Year, 1 Month Ago

She is a good professor and her class isn't too hard. If you try you basically can get at least an A- for sure (she gives curves and extra credit). However she has not replied to ANY of the three emails i sent her haha if you have anything just go to her office hours.

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PHYS7B . Popescu P F 1 Year, 3 Months Ago

Lectures are ok but there is a ton of content and not enough time to give thorough examples so watching example problems on YouTube helps a ton. Homework takes 4-8 hours to complete if you actually want to understand it, the midterm was easy but the final was incredibly hard.

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PHYS7B . Popescu P F 1 Year, 4 Months Ago

Great physics professor, though physics in general can be hard to learn or understand. Tests have MCQs, and are usually easier than the weekly homework. Clear feedback. Though, she uses Pearson (the devil) so prepare to spend $85.

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PHYS100A . Popescu P F 21 Days Ago

Prof. Popescu and knows the material well, but she's only ever taught lower-division courses meant for non-majors and it shows. Avoid for upper-division physics courses.

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PHYS7C . Popescu P F A Month Ago

GOAT. I had her for all of 7 series and she is such a passionate lecturer and engaging with her students in and outside of lectures. She is really good at emphasizing the intuition side of physics which can be frustrating but is rewarding. HWs can be long and attendance gives you a small boost in grade but not enough to consider "mandatory".

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PHYS6CL . Popescu P F 10 Months Ago

Phys 6CL was not bad, and the experiments were pretty interesting. Some of the prelabs are kind of long, so get ready for that. My TA was a really lenient grader, which was nice.

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