Paula taught this class for summer '18. I did pretty poorly in physics 6A when I took it over the previous school year, but did vastly better in Paula's class. Her practice midterm and final (non-cumulative) modeled her actual exams very well. She's super accessible outside class too and explains things well during office hours!

Popescu is the best physics professor I've had so far (I've had two before this since I dropped 6B in Spring lol). She was great with being thorough with the information and made good use of her powerpoints and the board. READ THE BOOK!! That helped me SO much this time around. I went from getting a C+ in 6A to an A in 6B.

While physics is at the very least boring, Professor Popescu did not make it feel that way. You can very much tell via her lectures that she cares about students' questions and whether they understand the material. Not too harsh of a grading system, and extremely accessible after class! Glad I don't need to retake her class, but definitely would!

Popescu was an absolute joy, and is a vastly underrated professor. Is very clear about the criteria on her midterms/final. She is new to teaching but she answers questions very well and really wants you to understand the material and succeed in the class. She also gives an extra credit homework assignment. iClicker is used for attendance.

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.