PHYSICS 110A
Electricity and Magnetism
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH), 131, Mathematics 32B, 33A, 33B. Electrostatics and magnetostatics. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2019 - For 110A, I took it with Bachtis this quarter and it was his first time teaching it. He gives energetic and engaging lectures and is always smiling. His energy and happiness made lectures something I looked forward to. He never failed to call on a hand that was raised during lecture...we picked up on this quick and lecture pretty much felt like a conversation between questions and Bachtis lecturing. He wrote some really testing exams. AKA...he'll combine 110A concepts into a single problem. The final was supposed to be cumulative but it was skwered towards everything after Mt2. To do the tests well, we had to really know concepts because they were never presented alone, always mixed in with other concepts. If Bachtis is teaching 110A during a quarter you're considering taking it, do yourself one better and enroll yo!
Winter 2019 - For 110A, I took it with Bachtis this quarter and it was his first time teaching it. He gives energetic and engaging lectures and is always smiling. His energy and happiness made lectures something I looked forward to. He never failed to call on a hand that was raised during lecture...we picked up on this quick and lecture pretty much felt like a conversation between questions and Bachtis lecturing. He wrote some really testing exams. AKA...he'll combine 110A concepts into a single problem. The final was supposed to be cumulative but it was skwered towards everything after Mt2. To do the tests well, we had to really know concepts because they were never presented alone, always mixed in with other concepts. If Bachtis is teaching 110A during a quarter you're considering taking it, do yourself one better and enroll yo!
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Spring 2017 - Bozovic genuinely cares about students learning the material which is nice. She's also dorky in a cute way and always has really snazzy dresses. Sometimes the material itself gets mundane, becoming a matter of which integral do you learn how to do next and it may feel removed from practical application. Statics is less fun than what follows, but it is the foundation, and when the class starts to meander a bit, make sure to go to TA office hours (Andrea was amazing) to get a different perspective. Midterms were relatively straightforward although the final did have 2 tricky questions that required thinking about the problem in a less-than-obvious perspective. Overall an enjoyable experience and Bozovic is really fun to have as a professor.
Spring 2017 - Bozovic genuinely cares about students learning the material which is nice. She's also dorky in a cute way and always has really snazzy dresses. Sometimes the material itself gets mundane, becoming a matter of which integral do you learn how to do next and it may feel removed from practical application. Statics is less fun than what follows, but it is the foundation, and when the class starts to meander a bit, make sure to go to TA office hours (Andrea was amazing) to get a different perspective. Midterms were relatively straightforward although the final did have 2 tricky questions that required thinking about the problem in a less-than-obvious perspective. Overall an enjoyable experience and Bozovic is really fun to have as a professor.
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Fall 2021 - Professor Hudson was a great professor, engaging lectures! The material is quite dense and so I got lost quite often. Go to office hours if you can, he will be there to answer any questions you have and clearly wants to help his students. I was practically in danger of failing, I have the worst test anxiety imaginable and scored far below average on the midterm and two quizzes (which were supposed to be easy and based on the homework which are problems from the textbook), but he reached out to my research advisor who was able to talk me through some options to help me. He was very understanding and accommodating and with his help I was actually able to perform well on the final and not fail. overall he's a good professor and I would take him again.
Fall 2021 - Professor Hudson was a great professor, engaging lectures! The material is quite dense and so I got lost quite often. Go to office hours if you can, he will be there to answer any questions you have and clearly wants to help his students. I was practically in danger of failing, I have the worst test anxiety imaginable and scored far below average on the midterm and two quizzes (which were supposed to be easy and based on the homework which are problems from the textbook), but he reached out to my research advisor who was able to talk me through some options to help me. He was very understanding and accommodating and with his help I was actually able to perform well on the final and not fail. overall he's a good professor and I would take him again.
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Very nice guy. Always available and very accomodating. I had him for Physics 110A, and he was very clear and articulate about concepts in electro- and magnetostatics. I came to his office hours once, and he pretty much explained all of physics to me from a small example that had sparked my curiosity. Very good teacher.
Very nice guy. Always available and very accomodating. I had him for Physics 110A, and he was very clear and articulate about concepts in electro- and magnetostatics. I came to his office hours once, and he pretty much explained all of physics to me from a small example that had sparked my curiosity. Very good teacher.
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Great professor. And this was the first course he taught! Lectures were clear and there was always a clear purpose to what he was lecturing about - something that not all Physics professors are good at. He writes the relevant Maxwell equations down at the beginning of every class to get us oriented, then goes on with the lecture at a good pace: neither too fast nor too slow. Tests (save the second midterm) were hard enough to be challenging, though not so hard as to be impossible. Homework is all from the book, and mostly doable: my only complaint is that the math got pretty ridiculous a few times, and there was no reason to make it that way - the Physics could still be understood with simpler integrals. He also had a good sense of humor before the tests, which let off some of the stress.
Great professor. And this was the first course he taught! Lectures were clear and there was always a clear purpose to what he was lecturing about - something that not all Physics professors are good at. He writes the relevant Maxwell equations down at the beginning of every class to get us oriented, then goes on with the lecture at a good pace: neither too fast nor too slow. Tests (save the second midterm) were hard enough to be challenging, though not so hard as to be impossible. Homework is all from the book, and mostly doable: my only complaint is that the math got pretty ridiculous a few times, and there was no reason to make it that way - the Physics could still be understood with simpler integrals. He also had a good sense of humor before the tests, which let off some of the stress.
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