Grading was 30% homework, 5% iclicker 20% midterm and 40% final. Final was noncumalative. Gives out practice midterm/final which model the midterm and final to about 60%. Very clear lecture and really cares about students. Also gives extra credit with homework. If you have a chance to take her, TAKE HER. great professor.

Professor Popescu was sweet and a reasonably good lecturer. Sometimes the things she said werent super clear but a lot of it was the nature of the course. She has to slowly figure out how to make her exams because the first had an average of 88 and second an average of 68. She will probably be a solid Professor down the road but is still learning.

Her lectures are just amazing and very useful, and exams are kind of challenging, however, with practice exams finished , you can get a good grade basically. We just had a amazing quarter!

The best lecturer I've ever had for my physic classes! She's nice and being helpful all the time. Lectures are clear and organized. Tests includes only multiple choice questions. If u master the practice tests and prepare decent notecards accordingly, u would definitely get higher than B.

Her lectures are unclear and confusing so I had to teach myself everything in this course. Her tests were MUCH harder than any homework and in class examples we ever had. The curve is unfair because you get a smaller curve when you get a higher raw score. If you have the option, I highly discourage taking Popescu!

I understand that Professor Popescu is new to teaching. However, teaching is something that she should not do until she gets a grasp of how to actually teach students. All of her explanations are scattered and confusing. Whenever a student asks a question her clarification only leads us to be even more confused. Good luck.

Cool course. There wasn't much for him to lecture on, it was just a crash course in observational astro. Just follow the labs, use the textbook where needed, the hardest part is figuring out the programs and scripts for image processing. Had to spend a bit of extra time in lab but not like 127. The field trip to Sedgwick was awesome.

The class was more about computer programming than physics... but the homework was simple because he posted his lectures online and you had to look for the specific page on where it talks about the specific diagram. He grades primarily on the final project and just hope that you have an awesome TA to help you.