PHYSICS 1C
Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
Description: Lecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 1A, 1B, Mathematics 32A, 32B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 33A. Magnetic fields, Ampere's law, Faraday's law, inductance, and alternating current circuits. Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, light, geometrical optics, interference and diffraction. Special relativity. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2021 - Regan is a cool guy, I like him a lot and he clearly cares about the welfare of his students, but fuck this class is hard. I'm a CS major, I don't care about physics, and I really don't want to spend the amount of time required to do well in this class on physics. It's probably a good take if you will do physics upper divs, but it's not for me.
Winter 2021 - Regan is a cool guy, I like him a lot and he clearly cares about the welfare of his students, but fuck this class is hard. I'm a CS major, I don't care about physics, and I really don't want to spend the amount of time required to do well in this class on physics. It's probably a good take if you will do physics upper divs, but it's not for me.
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He's a really nice guy and cares about his students, but man his lectures were boring. I couldn't bring myself to sit through any of them. He would go through the material very slowly and exactly as it was written in the book and everyone would just copy down what he wrote on the board. His lectures didn't really add anything to the text book. His tests were pretty tricky, especially the final. I think he was a fair grader and the couple of times I went to his office hours he was very willing to help. Still, I wouldn't take that class with him again.
He's a really nice guy and cares about his students, but man his lectures were boring. I couldn't bring myself to sit through any of them. He would go through the material very slowly and exactly as it was written in the book and everyone would just copy down what he wrote on the board. His lectures didn't really add anything to the text book. His tests were pretty tricky, especially the final. I think he was a fair grader and the couple of times I went to his office hours he was very willing to help. Still, I wouldn't take that class with him again.
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Summer 2020 - Review I wrote on Reddit. Initial feelings before midterm: Rombes is not bad so far! He writes a few problems for the HW sets and the others are out of Young and Freedman’s University Physics 15th Edition. He is good at explaining things and he doesn’t assume his students know everything that he is teaching. One thing to note, he often assigns two or three dot problems out of the textbook which are extremely hard, harder than the questions he writes usually for his HW. Feelings after final: We just had our final on Friday which was not that bad! Both midterm and Final were 24 hours and they were fairly reasonable. Rombes does not curve the class, its based on a straight scale so that is something to keep in mind, but given that the average for midterm was 85% which was a B, i feel like the scale worked pretty well. Keep in mind that this was for the Summer Session so im not sure if it will be the same for the Fall since it was much more hurried (6-week course), but his class seemed pretty reasonable! How to prepare for the class: I think you should review the Electricity and Circuits part of 1B, as that is the focus for the first ~25% of the class (Electricity will be replaced with Magnetism in 1C, and instead of DC circuits you learn about AC circuits in 1C). For the rest of the class, you should read ahead in the textbook (Young and Freedmen 15th edition, chapters 27 - 39 is basically the full span of the class). Overall feelings: He was a great professor and for his first time teaching, compared to the previous physics professors I had at UCLA, I really liked him and his teaching style. His exams were not too difficult and had a decent average unlike other professors, which was probably due to the lack of a curve, but its honestly a confidence booster when you don't get a 20/100.
Summer 2020 - Review I wrote on Reddit. Initial feelings before midterm: Rombes is not bad so far! He writes a few problems for the HW sets and the others are out of Young and Freedman’s University Physics 15th Edition. He is good at explaining things and he doesn’t assume his students know everything that he is teaching. One thing to note, he often assigns two or three dot problems out of the textbook which are extremely hard, harder than the questions he writes usually for his HW. Feelings after final: We just had our final on Friday which was not that bad! Both midterm and Final were 24 hours and they were fairly reasonable. Rombes does not curve the class, its based on a straight scale so that is something to keep in mind, but given that the average for midterm was 85% which was a B, i feel like the scale worked pretty well. Keep in mind that this was for the Summer Session so im not sure if it will be the same for the Fall since it was much more hurried (6-week course), but his class seemed pretty reasonable! How to prepare for the class: I think you should review the Electricity and Circuits part of 1B, as that is the focus for the first ~25% of the class (Electricity will be replaced with Magnetism in 1C, and instead of DC circuits you learn about AC circuits in 1C). For the rest of the class, you should read ahead in the textbook (Young and Freedmen 15th edition, chapters 27 - 39 is basically the full span of the class). Overall feelings: He was a great professor and for his first time teaching, compared to the previous physics professors I had at UCLA, I really liked him and his teaching style. His exams were not too difficult and had a decent average unlike other professors, which was probably due to the lack of a curve, but its honestly a confidence booster when you don't get a 20/100.
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Spring 2025 - This class requires live participation using Kudu, but it can be done remotely. The Kudu textbook is awful, so I recommend finding an alternative if you are interesting in actually learning the material. HWs are just Kudu problems and are easy, but incredibly unhelpful for preparing you for exams. Exam problems are more difficult than the HWs. They had mistakes on their exam every time, so they gave generous extra credit (90%+ midterm averages). Not sure how this messed with the curves though. Classes were recorded.
Spring 2025 - This class requires live participation using Kudu, but it can be done remotely. The Kudu textbook is awful, so I recommend finding an alternative if you are interesting in actually learning the material. HWs are just Kudu problems and are easy, but incredibly unhelpful for preparing you for exams. Exam problems are more difficult than the HWs. They had mistakes on their exam every time, so they gave generous extra credit (90%+ midterm averages). Not sure how this messed with the curves though. Classes were recorded.
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He's a horrible professor. He'd stop in the middle of explaining a theorem or concept and get confused by his own teachings. I don't think he quite know what he's talking. He just pours out everything that's needed to be taught in the syllabus with no concerns in whether the students could learn the material or not.
He's a horrible professor. He'd stop in the middle of explaining a theorem or concept and get confused by his own teachings. I don't think he quite know what he's talking. He just pours out everything that's needed to be taught in the syllabus with no concerns in whether the students could learn the material or not.
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