Honestly her 100A is great. A lot of materials and she covered it in great details. The homework sets are not particularly long, and I see her reason for adding problem presentation as one of the assignment. Carlson''s class always offer 5% extra credit for each exam, and the final is only 1 and a half hour long. I did enjoy the class anyways.

After graduating, I can say this is the worst professor I took. Very unaccommodating, long lectures where she rambles without explaining, and overall rudeness. The point of PHYS100A is to prepare you for the upperdiv quantum series (115 series) but after taking this class, I went into 115A feeling unprepared.

Lots of material and she barely covered it all, even without answering many questions in class. Not great, not awful. Makes sure to get the basic concepts down because the class moves quickly. Homework doesn't always correlate to material covered in class.

She talks to herself most lectures. Lectures don't correlate to homework at all. You mainly learn while you do the homework. Exams were pretty fair but not the best. She doesn't ask for questions so you need to ask after class. She clearly knows her stuff but can be difficult to talk to.

There are too many assignments. I prefer Dr. Banta's style of a few difficult problems and second pass where we can revisit the miss-steps for half credit. The jumping around feels jarring and the lectures a rough. I have to do a lot of self teaching. She clearly cares about her students though and promptly answers emails.

Such a boring professor and too many useless assignments.

I have seen professors that read off of slides. I have seen professors that just copy their lecture notes on a blackboard and then read it. Yet I have never seen a professor that hasn't written ANYTHING in lectures before this class. Prof Carlson basically reads her pre-made lecture notes and makes us attend all lectures for "participation grades".

half of the assignments in the class are completely useless. their only purpose is to pad your grade. a better solution would be just to curve the class. my time spent on all these assignments would be better spent reviewing lecture and solving actual helpful HW problems. so many of the HW problems do NOT reinforce what we learned in class. useless

There are a lot of padding assignments and EC in this class so its fairly easy to get a good grade. But it's hard to learn anything from the 2nd half of this class. The lectures become overly complicated and dont prepare you for the HW. You basically have to teach yourself, but the textbook is also useless because its meant for review, not learning

Do not take - so many homework and active learnings (plus section requirements and problem presentation) means you'll be writing about trivial obvious problems step by step for hours. This is more of a handwriting class than a math class. So mind numbing.

She's better at lecturing than most other profs I've had, but it's very fast-paced and at 8 am. Definitely interrupt her to ask questions in lecture, otherwise she will keep talking forever. ALSO, if you are a DSP student, you will have to fight her for accommodations. She has the mindset "if you're failing, just work harder and don't be lazy."

Her lectures are a bit too fast, but the lecture notes do help. Tests are fair, there is a practice final that is very similar to the real final, and lots of extra credit. You need to write a paper for the course (which is kind of weird), and it takes a lot of effort, so be ready to spend 12 - 15 hours each week on this course.