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lothario tonez unfortunately spoke with a deadpan monotone for all 8 of the lectures I ended up attending. i got dicked in this class but i cant really complain considering my attendance record. pro tip: if u skip class, refresh kudu at around the 35-40 minute mark into the lecture

The most organized and intelligible professor I've ever had. Take him if you can.

His lectures were extremely clear and you could copy his notes almost exactly for your own notes, but this was a problem in and of itself. He went so slow and so deliberately in lecture through the notes and practice problems that when we were set out on our own, for homework or exams, it seemed much harder than doing it in lecture and often I did not know where to start. Still, he was a very clear professor in lecture, even if his lectures were not super exciting. His exams are alright, not terrible but definitely not easy. Definitely know how to do the practice exam problems very well as this usually applied directly to the exam.

Very organized! The class was very average.

GREAT professor!! TAKE!!! His lectures are really well organized and he posts notes on CCLE. He is a good lecturer and explains everything really clear. His exams are manageable. He give review sessions for all exams, and the questions in the review sessions are really similar to the real exams. I would take his physics classes at all expenses.

I really liked Professor Bondarenko as a person, but I personally did not like his teaching style. If you follow him through the lecture, you feel like you understand everything. But when you take the exam, BAM! You're expected to come up with stuff on your own, and you don't know how to do that. Too much algebraic derivitizations and too much materials covered compared to Samani's 5A. And too many questions on the midterms when you only have 50 minutes. Other people had more success with him than me, maybe I'm just not as cutthroat. But take it from a person who received a D in his 5A, an A in Samani's 5A, and an A in Schriver's 5B. Some fights are just not worth fighting, haha.

Bondarenko is a great professor. He is very clear and systematic with the way he teaches. His tests are fair, but like all physics classes your grade is based on the curve. He also posts all his lecture notes online as well as bruincasts, which is a plus.

Bondarenko isn't terrible, but he isn't super great either. There are two midterms and one final exam. He required us to buy Kudu which is where we did weekly homework and also live participation questions that required you to go to class or have a friend in the class. Kudu is not a great platform but it allowed for easy points since homework questions could be looked up online. TA went over how to do Kudu problems during discussions, but my specific TA overcomplicated it.

His tests are formatted weird. He asks theoretical questions, using strange wording. No numbers, you basically derive equations solving for whatever the question asks. Once you see how his tests are written and you figure out what he wants, it isn't too bad. He uploads practice tests and does review sessions. He also uploads all his lecture notes as he handwrites them during lecture with a projector.

The class is definitely doable. But overall, I felt like I didn't learn much physics in his class. He spends a lot of lecture deriving equations and not necessarily explaining the physics behind it that well. He draws bizarre diagrams and uses weird notation that made it too convoluted for me to follow.

Physics is a subject that can be directly applied to the world, and demonstrations definitely would have solidified understanding of the material. Bondarenko did not do any demos, rarely ever showed real-life examples in class. His class just felt very abstract to me when physics should have very concrete connections to the world.

One of the worst classes I’ve taken. Whole thing was intense calculus and difficult math that was not explained in class because he assumed everyone knew it. The exams had concepts I genuinely had never heard of before and we were only given class time to complete it. Office hours were so unhelpful and there were no resources provided to students to help prepare for exams besides a review session and one practice test. Students complained the entire time about lack of preparation and his reply would be to do textbook problems that were nothing like the tests. Had to drop Week 10, a lot of other people did too.. RIP

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