Conflicting feelings. Lectures are pretty useless, purely conceptual. Homework is a large percent of your grade, so failing is pretty impossible, but that's offset by the low test averages (71, 60, 57). These were his highest averages ever, according to him. You have homework due every day. Take Freud if you can't take a mild hit to your GPA.

He's is SO DISORGANIZED and BAD. He openly stated on the first day that his class wasn't meant to be a weeder course, but it definitely felt like one. He also mentioned that the department was unhappy with the discrepancy between his class and Freund's. His teaching made class impossible. He gives 3 question practice exams with no explanations. .

NEVER TAKE PHYSICS WITH GELLER. Be prepared to spend the entire quarter teaching yourself and fail every midterm! Literally one of the worst professors i have ever had here at UCSB. His teaching is completely theoretical and does not relate to exams or homework what so ever. Incredibly hard tests. Final average was a 57%

Take literally anything else. This was the most unpleasant experience I have ever had in a class. His lectures are entirely conceptual and completely unhelpful regarding homework or exams, which are entirely mathematical. Do not expect any practice exams longer than maybe three questions. Only take if you want to teach yourself the entire course.

Overall, there is a lot of pros and cons. Pros could be his midterms are all multiple choice and Cons is that his practice exams doesn't really help much it is not structured well. His explanations on it doesn't make sense. He should post an ACTUAL practice midterms or finals with good explanation that way students can learn from him better.

Honestly, this class wouldnt be bad if geller could actually teach. I feel like ive spent the entire quarter teaching myself physics because this man could not teach a class to save his life. That combined with how tough he makes his exam questions is horrible. He expects you to be a physics major with extensive background in an intro class. RUN!!

Geller's 6A class is quite challenging, but with diligence and the right resources, you can succeed. The homework can be time-consuming, but using tools like unstuckstudy ai alongside the free textbook can really help. Attend lectures and stay engaged - the tests are difficult but manageable if you put in the work.

Exams are harder than they should be.

Geller is the harder of the two physics lecturers solely because he does not give students practice problems that directly correlate to the test like Freund. In addition, there is A LOT of homework which is the most challenging part, but overall if you understand the homework you will do good on the tests.

If you are not good at logic solving then probably not the best course to take. Thought professor was fine, just that the hw's did not scale properly so you would get hw that was really easy then it immediately became really difficult and you would not know how to solve it. Hws usually took a while so prepare for that.

If you haven't taken AP physics DO NOT TAKE GELLER.

Taking Geller for 6A was the most miserable experience I've had in any class so far. He is useless. You would expect for a math heavy class he'd run through problems in lecture, but he didn't do a SINGLE practice problem with numbers. Unsurprisingly, class average on the final was a 50%. Prepare to spend many hours teaching yourself the material.

Absolutely terrible! If you have to take physics and you're stuck with Geller, wait and take it with Freund. Geller has incredibly hard tests with problems that have never been seen in class before. He doesn't tech to his tests in lecture, and gets off by making exams incredibly hard. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!! HE'S THE WORST!!

This guy loves to use Achieve, which is the most stupid homework system I have ever used. His tests are easy and his lectures are always useless. Achieve is enough. The most time I spend on is Achieve. You just need to do the practice test he gave for his test, they are really easy.

This professor is the worst one I have ever met, he has unlimited and extremely hard HW to do once a week, almost 6 achieve and very tough to have good grades. Never take his class, never ever take his class

The homework is harder than lectures/tests. The exams are similar to lectures, so it would be wise to attend. If you took AP Physics 1 then this is very very easy, otherwise pay attention to mechanics.

Please take any professor over Geller. He provides no practices for the midterms or final, so you have no clue what you are getting into. Additionally, he assigns TONS of homework that benefits in no way, just soley busy work. Lectures are ok, however, he does not provide any practice for the extremely difficult exams.

He explains everything clearly and provides plenty of examples, so go to lecture!!! The tests are not super easy but fair, just do practice problems. The main con is that a few of the homework assignments were unreasonably long and there's a lot of them. Overall a good teacher who is passionate about the subject.

He is not as bad as people say. He really likes physics, and he loves explaining physics. If you do the homework you will get a B or A. Some weird quirks (do not email q's abt exams!!!!!) but you can tell he is a nice guy at heart. People pass off their lack of studying the material he provides as him teaching badly - physics just requires practice

He's a nice guy and his lectures are helpful, if a bit slow. There's lots of homework yes but most of it is helpful, and I found that if I was able to do the homework problems confidently, I'd do fine on the tests. His grading scale is really nice-- homework counts for a lot! I'd still recommend CLAS tho or relying on friends if you can.

Get ready to spend hours on homework that won't help you with the exams. With previous physics experience, the class will be a breeze, but the class is taught very poorly. He's nice and tries to make lectures fun, but honestly, the class is a major pain.Thankful for his grading scale though! Exams are multiple-choice and no partial credit is given.

I took Geller last quarter and I was essentially teaching myself the entire class. His lectures are not near enough of a help to get through the insane amount of homework he assigns so you have to cover most of the class's info on your own time. He makes the class more confusing than it needed to be because of his unorganized lecture style.

You can tell that Geller really tries to help his students understand physics in lectures. That being said, the resources he provides outside of class are not enough. Sign up for CLAS to get extra practice problems and do the Achieve since it's worth a lot. Our class did so bad that he made a 75% on the final a 100%, so there's hope for you.

This guy loves achieve, sometimes assignments almost every day of the week. Basically taught myself through the pre-lecture assignments.