This professor assigns math-heavy homework for chem majors. However, during his office hours, he struggles to smoothly calculate even the second derivative when providing examples. TAs are much more helpful than him. You should take advantage if you have to take the class: he might award you an 'A' even if your grade is B if you satisfy his egotism

He seems to pretend to care about students, but in reality, it's similar to what other comments have mentioned: he takes great pleasure in tormenting students. He holds strong opinions about individual student behaviors and exhibits a drastically negative attitude, almost like insulting you if he doesn't like you: focus on making him happy.

There's a lot of negative reviews for this professor, but when the alternative professor is Bowers - widely regarded as a very mean professor - Vojtech is actually a very good prof. He cares about students a lot, and is very passionate about the material, which is nice to see. Hard exams, but as typical with chem - there will be a big curve!

Prof Shea makes the first part of pchem so understandable and not intimidating. She makes you do book problems as HW so if you have chegg it's free. Her lectures are good and she doesnt go too fast. Midterms are just harder versions of book problems and Quizzes are actual book problem. Final was a little hard but the curve was pretty good.

She is one of the nicest profs I've ever had! If you take all the notes in class and make sure you understand all of the hw problems, you'll have no problem in that class. She posts some notes online, but it's not as helpful as in class notes. She dedicates like 30 min of lecture to show you how to approach the hw, V straight forward.

Probably the nicest professor I've had in the Chem department. Go to class, take good lecture notes, and make sure you understand how to do all of the homework problems. You can get at least a B if you do those things. A true queen!!

Absolutely deplorable. The first exam average was 40% and second exam average was 51%. I fully learned the materials by myself without her help by reading all chapters. She does not teach, doesn't post notes on BB, doesn't respond to email, doesn't care about any of the students! worst professor ever.

I really wish she was teaching the whole 113 series because she's the best prof! Although the class was a lot easier than I thought it would be, I think I still learned everything I needed to. She's so nice and sweet and even more helpful. She's so passionate about everything she talks about and never makes her students feel stupid for asking a q.

Best professor to take 113series with! She really cares about her students & wants them all to pass. Quizzes are straight from homework so they're super easy but don't let this fool you into thinking that the actual exams are easy. Go to office hours, look at examples from lectures & do the hw! nice curve at the end too.

Joan is a really hard professor. She gave out practice tests, which are much easier than the real tests. The final is a killer, only allow 1 page cheatshhet for the final. Hard professor, but good lectures, and learned a lot in the class.

Very very nice teacher.

The major difficulty would be recognising the notations and handwritings used by professor. Nonetheless, it's an invaluable class as introduction to quantum dynamic.

Vlcek is honestly not that bad, his lectures can be hard to follow but his exams are open-note and that gave me some peace of mind when preparing for exams. You are graded by very few things but he did offer extra credit on the last homework assignment.

Bro, no. Just no. If you didn't have A+ in calc II, you will struggle so bad. One of the HW question is to breakdown integral that will take the WHOLE DAMN PAGE. Final non-cumulative, nobody said a word about that, not TA, not VV. If you have 14+ units DO NOT TAKE HIM.

Amazing lectures offered solid fundamentals in quantum mechanics. Detailed explanations of equations and derivations clarified the physical meaning and significance of quantum theory.

Professor Vlcek offers unreasonably difficult homework and exams. Every week, I have to spend ~10 hours on just six homework problems and still get 10% off even with a correct answer. Some of the homework problems are from Griffiths' Quantum Mechanics textbook, which is aimed for physics majors. He enjoys torturing students very much.

He had a very firm understanding of the material and he took the time to explain it. The lectures were recorded and made a lot of sense.

Good

Shes very attentive and a fair grader. Hw is worth a good amount of the grade (not hard) and there are 2 midterms and one final (they are fair, just do practice problems). She makes a hard subject easier. I would definitely take her class again, shes one of my favorite proffs. Also, she gives lots of study material and puts the textbook on reserve.

Shea is incredible at explaining concepts and getting them across. Her tests were questions very similar to homework problemsextra problems assigned, as well as problems that were gone over in lecture. I loved this class and wish I had her for all of my classes. If you understand how to do the homework problems, you'll get an A.

She's a nice lady, but this class was rather difficult. I failed the first quiz, D' on exam#1, A' on the 2nd quiz, & probably bombed the final. BUT! I had nearly perfect HW scores, & did the extra credit assignment. Ended up with a C' in the class. Try to do good in the beginning of the class, it'll help a lot. TA was very helpful too.

Not very clear in class, she's a genius so she sometimes doesn't get that normal people are a little slow. She definitely goes out of her way to help you. Office hours will clear up everything. Tests were easy. She's understandable, nice, compassionate. I didn't like her at first, but I loved her by the end. Great professor.

Really helpful, friendly, passionate. LOVE HER!

I had her for both 112A and 145. Her ability to convey difficult concepts is unmatched at this school. She's incredibly nice and her research is groundbreaking- it's truly a privilege to take a class from her. She got her PhD from MIT so you actually have to do some studying. But, students of all levels of understanding can succeed in her classes.