Professor Dogic is really caring and wants all of his students to do well, so he always available during office hours. The lecture slides can sometimes be confusing, but he answers all questions in class so be sure to go to the lectures. There is lots of Hw, but it is similar to the problems on the exams which makes it very good practice.

That was so hard. But it's not his fault it's hard. Content starts out easy and then the final comes around and you'd rather live in the dark than learn another thing about electricity. Dogic himself is a great lecturer, funny guy, not super easy to reach by email but great in office hours. The 2 midterms were easy like the hw but final was insane.

Two weekly hw components, (MP and written) and the written problems were good practice for his two midterms, which were both fair. Final was way harder than anything we'd seen before, and took over 3 hours. It's obvious he cared abt his students and his lectures were great, but that last test was insane. He's def not the worst phys prof though.

The exam is super difficult. He tried to improve the level of the class by letting students learn by themselves or drop the class. Not even as caring about students as other biochemistry professors, but you have to take this class anyway if you want to get a degree at UCSB, while he will be your worst enemy to let you get that. DONT TRY THIS CLASS!

Absolutely horrible professor. Do not take for Physics 5L during the pandemic. Her labs are graded very harshly, and the workload required for this one credit class is so much more than the coursework required for the other labs. AVOID.

Dont know what all the hate is for. Everything is straight out of the book and yeah its challenging buts its a challenging subject. Curves are nice

"The average is a lot lower than I expected, but I'm waiting for the students that lowered the average to drop the class to bring it back to what the average should be. So I'm not going to curve the midterm." -Brandon Greene 3 live lectures, and video lectures, and read the textbook for quizzes before each lecture, still not enough for the test.

During COVID: Live Lectures were mandatory but not useful towards learning. tests during class on topics that you learned on your own the night or 2 before, had quizzes before every lecture. Had offline lectures. Overall, he didn't explain much, left you on your own, and would be disappointed when the class fails as he seemed to hate curving .

If you can do not take 142 series in UCSB.

142A is a tough class in UCSB, he definitely put lots of effort into this class. However, most students still learn everything on themselves by reading the textbook. Dr. Greene is very stubborn, once he decides something (grading and stuff),others' advice is useless. One good thing is that he's very available out of class.

This course if very test-heavy. The difficulty of the tests are also much harder than the homework (which are tedious enough) and are hard to finish on time. Two midterms, one final, and weekly homework (both on Mastering Physics and written homework). I would recommend a different professor, in my opinion. Regardless, good luck.

He tried but it was his first time of teaching this class. Midterms and final were long and hard to finish with a short given amount of time. Textbook will be your best friend. But he was still the better option for biochem from chem department. If you are premed, please consider mcdb before taking it.

Prof Dogic tried his best during this time. He's genuinely a good person and even when we were behind, he still kept on answering questions and wanted students to learn. The material is genuinely hard (more difficult than PHYS 1 and 2 by far imo) so students struggled a lot. His teaching could be better though. Difficult tests, lots of homework.

I definitely shouldnt drop reich and Kahns 142. Even lower avg than Kahn. Very little curve. Curve based on highest score but you should know every class has a few people who can do very well on any test. God bless u if ur section has smart brain. I ended up with learning nothing but understanding his weird wording to pass the test.

This guy is just another researcher with no proper ability to teach whatsoever. His lectures were so hard to follow even when I was able to replay what he was saying. Homework was so tedious and pretty useless when it came to exams. Which btw are extremely hard. Like cmon dude if you can't teach well, at least make tests easy

Incredible class! Not only will you be lost in lecture, you'll be lost afterwards since the slides are completely scuffed! Homework will take you hours, only to be useless since the exams are homework questions juiced on roids! All because he defaults that we're cheating anyways, so you might as well buy Chegg and fulfill your divine prophecy.

Lots of homework. Extremely difficult exams. Also forgot 3 whole chapters to teach in 1 week left. Lectures are vague. Homework is much more usable than lectures. BAD!

He can be another notorious professor. He puts EXTENSIVE work on students and doesn't make informative lectures either. You need to learn everything yourself and maybe learn a little things from his poor lectures by doing some quizzes that assume you already know the materials. Stubborn, not listening to students' advice. Avoid him if you can

Dr. Greene really tries to put in the effort but he absolutely cannot teach. Makes you dread the class no matter how much you love the subject. You will only learn from the textbook and good luck with answering his extremely poorly phrased questions on quizzes, exams, etc. He is also reluctant to listen to constructive student feedback, just awful.

All I have to say is that he doesnt go over material in lecture and spouts out these infamous, useless words, just come to my office hours. If you cant teach the material in your allotted lecture time, then just screw off instead of trying to continuously cram it in with office hours as an excuse not to teach.

Psycho man with impossible exams. Lectures are not engaging and only go over basic conceptual things, like high school content. Homework is too much and noticeably harder than what is taught. Assignments due right before every lecture is hard to keep track. Then exams are convoluted, filled with typos, and ask even harder content. Quit your job.

Nice guy. I believe studying the textbook over lectures is the way to go to succeed in this class. There is boatload amount of work expected of you every week. He even had work assigned during break and an exam right after. COVID presents challenges for exams, and his exams were definitely on the harder side, despite all the work expected!

The final is so hard that I'm not sure anybody could get A if he doesn't curve the class.

Super long tests with confusing questions and lots of typos.