i think she is an awesome professor. she really cares about her students and is ALWAYS willing to help. homework is tough, but CLAS definitely helps out. go to office hours if you have questions.

I agree with the class being difficult but as an engineering major its not one of the hardest. The people who complain in her class tend to be othe ones that dont do the readings or do not spend time trying to comprehend lectures. Prof fygenson is a good lecturer and although its tons of homework, it is the only way to really learn the material.

Physics circus is a seminar where students go out to elementary schools and perform physics demos for the kiddies. Prof Fygenson is very sweet, and can explain physics even to little kids, so I'm sure can do it for you too...Though maybe not, I've never been in her lecture. What I can tell you is that Physics Circus is good fun.

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Class hard. The homework is ridiculous, expect to spend at LEAST 8-10 hours per set. (usually more) Though its not her fault - they are departmental questions so there is no getting around them. Tests are pretty hard, but she can be helpful if the class insists that she go over questions in lect

Make no mistake - there is A LOT of homework. However, thats really the only way to stay on top of the material. Also, she's very enthusiastic, and is always willing to help any student out, regardless of whether it encroaches on her time, or that student clearly doesnt pay attention in class.

What an annoying teacher... her demonstrations dont work, she can't teach, the book she chose sucks (don't even bother buying it, get a diff one), she teaches from notes and finally, there's lots of homework.

HORRIBLE! She seems nice, but don't let this fool you; her tests are rediculous and who knows where she gets the material for them from, cuz it's not from lectures! Does the fact that the class average is a 60 say ANYTHING to her?

I could not keep up with this lady's demands. The material was not too difficult but she somehow seemed to make it that way and we are not physics majors. She is up for tenure in the fall and I hope she doesn't get it: she should not be teaching at UCSB

Honestly her rather high expectations do not work at a substandard school like UCSB. The students are here to have a good time, not to receive rigorous education, so she should only give students just enough workload necessary for getting mediocre degrees

She is useless. Poor lectures, unorganized, tests have little to do with homework, she just plain sucks. We waste time everyday taking her stupid survey and using our damn 3 color cards to rate the problem. She seems to care and try but it's not working.

She can be unclear and her demonstrations don't always work, but she does try hard. She would work with me until I felt comfortable with the problems, and was available for long periods of time. At least sh cares.

A lot of people loathed this class. Sure, she was a bit ambiguous and assigned quite a bit of homework but she made up for it in her attentiveness to her students and willingness to help. She was literally in her office all day with her students.

3 midterms and a final in a summer school class? Even regular year physics classes don't do pull those stunts. Little sympathy for what appeared to be her first time teaching physics, but not much. HW was manageable but the tests had nothing to do it

STAY AWAY! nothing more to say

She likes to teach, but she likes the student to struggle a bit. You do have to do a lot of work, but she's quite willing to help in her way.

TOO much HW! doesnt realize that 8 hours of HW a DAY is unfair! and where were the HW problems on the test? NOWhere.. cuase it was even more so unfair. Half the class failed the tests the other half dropped. this class is so unfair and hellish, take 1

The old diatribe holds true, someone may be a good researcher, but that doesnt necessarily make them a good teacher. Very inconsiderate of student needs, high drop rate, never informs students of what's going to be on tests. Boooo!

oh this woman. I mean, I never saw so many kids drop as much and as fast as in this class! This woman DOES NOT know how to teach! She is inconsiderate and is very UNFAIR! You have LOADS of hw ALL FOR THE WEEKEND, about 30 problems for the weekend, and 30