Presents concepts and methodologies for understanding physical phenomena, and is particularly useful preparation for upper-division study in the life sciences. Oscillatory motion. Vibrations, waves, sound. Fluids. Electrostatics and DC circuits. Magnetism and magnetic forces. Induction and Faraday's law. AC circuits. If time permits: Heat and thermodynamics.
3
UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNone
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeThe class was going great until the final. There were questions on topics I had never seen before, including modules that he skipped over and said we didn't need to know.
Students are expected to know a ridiculous amount of information w/o clear guidelines about what is actually tested. 5% of the lecture content is useful review/practice problems; the other 95% is tangents and demos that overcomplicate things. Instead of providing additional practice materials, he told us to generate practice problems using AI.
Lectures are just repetitions of the topics covered in the pre-lecture videos, so the lectures feel really redundant. I studied for 2 weeks doing all the available problems multiple times and even generated new ones. Still felt really unprepared for whatever that final was. passed tho
If you're looking for a professor who is more concerned with his status within the Physics department than he is with working with actual students, you've found the one! Be prepared to study with very minimal resources and the possibility of complete curveball exams where he ramps up the difficulty to "even out the curve"...
If you want a good GPA, avoid at all costs
Take Geller if you want to make your life difficult. grade is HW and 2 exams. The practice exams are not at all similar and you're going to see questions you've never seen before in your life. It is VERY DOABLE- hw is ok, exam is mostly questions u can figure out, but so much worse than it should be. Save urself the Geller bs- take Freund.