PHYSICS 6C
Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Light, Fluids, Thermodynamics, Modern Physics
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 6B. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 6CH. Geometrical and physical optics, fluid statics and dynamics, thermodynamics. Selected topics from foundations of quantum mechanics; atomics, nuclear and particle physics; relativity; medical detectors; biological applications. P/NP or letter grading.
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Fall 2019 - I took Physics 5B with Professor Niemann. Professor Niemann is a great professor who is direct in what he expects. His grading scheme is very generous in that you can drop a midterm of half a final. He doesn't look like it, but he is very understanding when it comes to grades and the concerns of students. His tests although a bit tricky sometimes are never unfair, though the first exam was long for the 50 minutes allotted. Overall, I really recommend Niemann. He has a very generous grading scheme, and I would take him again.
Fall 2019 - I took Physics 5B with Professor Niemann. Professor Niemann is a great professor who is direct in what he expects. His grading scheme is very generous in that you can drop a midterm of half a final. He doesn't look like it, but he is very understanding when it comes to grades and the concerns of students. His tests although a bit tricky sometimes are never unfair, though the first exam was long for the 50 minutes allotted. Overall, I really recommend Niemann. He has a very generous grading scheme, and I would take him again.
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WORST PROFESSOR I HAVE EVER HAD AT UCLA, HANDS DOWN. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. He is a terrible lecturer - half of the time you can't hear or understand what he says, even if you sit in front. He assigns homework that is vaguely relevant to his exams - I did all of the problems he assigned and most of the unassigned problems in the chapter and still had no idea what he was asking on the exams. I was really struggling in his class because I was having trouble visualizing E&M, and he made it nearly impossible for me to understand or improve. I couldn't make his office hours because they conflicted with another class, and he was nearly impossible to contact. He took nearly three weeks to email me back about an appointment to discuss the midterm, and when I finally met with him he literally told me, "I don't know what to tell you to do." I went to my TA's office hours, got one-on-one help from my TA, was enrolled in Covel Peer Learning Labs, and even paid for a private tutor and still ended up with only a C+ in the class. Just to give you a taste of the class...our final exam was so ridiculous that the average was a 31%. Needless to say, this class thoroughly disappointed me as I endured the experience of having a professor who clearly only cared about research and not teaching (apparently he invented some sort of laser).
WORST PROFESSOR I HAVE EVER HAD AT UCLA, HANDS DOWN. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. He is a terrible lecturer - half of the time you can't hear or understand what he says, even if you sit in front. He assigns homework that is vaguely relevant to his exams - I did all of the problems he assigned and most of the unassigned problems in the chapter and still had no idea what he was asking on the exams. I was really struggling in his class because I was having trouble visualizing E&M, and he made it nearly impossible for me to understand or improve. I couldn't make his office hours because they conflicted with another class, and he was nearly impossible to contact. He took nearly three weeks to email me back about an appointment to discuss the midterm, and when I finally met with him he literally told me, "I don't know what to tell you to do." I went to my TA's office hours, got one-on-one help from my TA, was enrolled in Covel Peer Learning Labs, and even paid for a private tutor and still ended up with only a C+ in the class. Just to give you a taste of the class...our final exam was so ridiculous that the average was a 31%. Needless to say, this class thoroughly disappointed me as I endured the experience of having a professor who clearly only cared about research and not teaching (apparently he invented some sort of laser).
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Fall 2016 - Professor Richard is a really sweet and nice but his lectures are kinda dry and boring and very math based. He doesn't test on the proofs but in order to do well in the class, do lots of practice problems from the book! He allows one sheet of cheat sheet for each midterm, and two sheets for the final! Write everything on it include examples of the book!
Fall 2016 - Professor Richard is a really sweet and nice but his lectures are kinda dry and boring and very math based. He doesn't test on the proofs but in order to do well in the class, do lots of practice problems from the book! He allows one sheet of cheat sheet for each midterm, and two sheets for the final! Write everything on it include examples of the book!
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