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.

2nd best physics professor (apart from freund). He's very caring and helps a lot during office hours. Tests are straight forward but you definitely need to know what you're doing

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.

I came for the iClicker questions but I stayed for those glorious knit sweaters. He is very organized and prepared for every lecture, but somewhat too formal in my opinion. His dedication and care for teaching is evident even though the material isn't always clear.

He's a really nice and caring professor and he would answer all the questions. Although his tests are hard and he does curve on grade, you would get an A if you follow him.

One of the best professor's I've had for physics at UCSB. He is very thorough in lecture and he will not put anything on the midterm that he has not gone over in lecture. The questions on the exams were simpler than the questions on the MasteringPhysics. Exams are a mixture of about 25-30% MC and the rest free response. Helpful office hours.

Prof. Koutroulakis is the best physics professor I've had at UCSB! He lectures well and clearly tries very hard to help you understand. Tests are very difficult but are fairly graded.

Dr. Koutroulakis is by far the best physics instructor I've had: his lectures actually covered everything on his exams, and he actually put thought into the course structure. Although TAs handled grading the exams, Dr. Koutroulakis encouraged us to review the exams with him to ensure that everyone was graded fairly. Free response isn't scary!

Tough Grader! Don't take his class!!!!!