I took his class last spring. Before I started rating i thought he might be getting too much hatred, but I can't help rating 1 on every category. He gave us too little time for 1st midterm, but he made 2nd midterm and Final exam easy.(I got 100% on final) HW took too way long. It ate at least 10 hours each week, often a lot more than that.

He's no Eric Orsini, Eric Orsini is the man... You all should drop Corsini and find the Orsini experience!!

Eric Corsini is an affront to the profession of teaching. He made attendance mandatory (iClickers on Tues, quiz on Weds), was condescending, and spent several lectures failing to solve his own example problems. Administrative issues? He'll tell you to come to office hours and encourage others to ask questions so he doesn't have to help you. Awful.

Easily the worst teacher I have ever had. Basically paying a bunch of money to try and learn physics on your own. He will stare at the board trying to figure out his own problems, but hey, at least you and your pals will get a laugh when this guy tries to get control of the class, no respect for this "teacher." Ruined my quarter.

This was my first Physics class ever. He expected way more background knowledge than most of the students had. His lectures were confusing and he made a lot of mistakes. Review sessions were scattered and off topic. Tests were unfair and material he said wasn''t going to be on them was.

He's a really great guy and pushes you really hard. However, a lot of his procedures seem very excessive; they stress you out a lot more than they help you learn the material. Always go to the review sessions. Don't stress out too much about HW and quizzes, they are a very small percentage of the grade. Test taking skills are important on his exams

I sent him a private email and instead of responding to me he replied by sending the whole class an announcement. Homework assignments were due twice a week and were very time consuming. One of those professors who thinks his class is the only class you're taking.

Memorize how to do homework problems for the test. It's so much easier that way. You can use intuition to solve the test problems, but there isn't enough time considering the difficulty of the problems. TA's were absolutely useless, and their grading rubric for the tests were unforgiving since only final answers mattered. Nobody is exaggerating...

You can tell he loves physics,and that he really cares about his students. Yet he has unreasonably high expectations, which is aggravating because of his constant mistakes in lecture and on tests (he rounds weird). Class overall was doable, but first midterm wasn't. Most HW was just busy work. Don't panic if you do bad on 1st test,it gets easier.

First midterm was near impossible to do. Second midterm was completely fair. However, the final was the same as the first midterm in difficulty. He is a nice guy, but he does not know how to teach. He purposely makes the exams hard. Avoid him if you can.

Absolutely horrendous. Midterm 1 and final were impossible, mere guessing games. Midterm 2 was fair. Definitely do not take. I got a B+ in Physics 1 and a C- in this class.

The class wasn't easy, and Corsini was sometimes confusing, but he wasn't as bad as everyone makes him out to be. The reality is that most students in the class can't learn anything unless it's spoon-fed to them. It's a physics class, go learn to problem solve. Grow up. It's upsetting how people in that class could not learn on their own.

Awful, rude, arrogant, egomaniac professor. Can't do the majority of ** his own problems **, both in lecture and in office hours. Neither can the useless TAs. Avoid this professor if possible. Universally hated, and considered by many to be the worst professor in UCSB's physics department.

Seems like a really nice guy but has no idea how to teach and tests are impossible. Homework is torture. The only way to pass the class is pure luck.

By taking this class from this instructor, I have a very bad quarter. It has alsoaffected my other studies very much negatively.

Worst teacher ever, doesn't answer questions, doesn't go over homework or quizes, or exams. Expects you to be on time at 8 in the morning and ready to go and precise. He himself is unorganized, every midterm had multiple mistakes. Hypocritical and conceded and an absolutely awful teacher.

To do his tests is like doing guessing games. It is solely a "luck" thing. You may get a decent score when guessing out more, but you get a low score if you don't guess right. The tests have nothing to do with if you understand the materials or not. disappointing.

He spends half the time getting stuck on problems and the other half instructing us on efficiency and how to pass in tests and quizzes. The homework format is such that it takes hours and losing credit is imminent. If you get him, good luck passing. You will need it.

My high school physics teacher, a UCLA graduate, teaches way way better than Corsini. Corsini is unclear in everything.

First midterm was among the most unfair I have taken. I had learned nothing from the lectures (they offer little to know value) but the test was 80% multiple choice so I guessed my way to an 85. Other students who had a grasp of the material failed because they were not as lucky. If he is teaching your class, wait a quarter.

Cannot procrastinate in his class. He really tries to help his students by providing extra office hours and having anonymous notes to critique his teaching. The exams are kinda tricky, but if you understand, the problems are straightforward.

Can the instructor write clear tests? Can the instructor give short and brief test instructions? don't know what the instructor lectures about, what he tests about.

Corsini seems like a really nice guy but he doesn't know how to teach. You are required to go to class because homework is due on Tuesdays and weekly quizzes are on Thursdays. His tests are unnecessarily hard and he can't seem to explain himself. Avoid the class if you can. If you can't, good luck.

Makes you write a description of each problem for the homework, along with the usual work shown. Does not do a good job of lecturing; writes small, mumbles, and can't answer students' questions. Quizzes, which occur once every week, do not have reasonable questions for the time allotted. Would definitely NOT RECOMMEND Corsini, if you have a choice.