Professor
B. Regan
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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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Fall 2018 - This class was extremely difficult I would recogmend not taking it with him. This class is also technically skippable. If you must take this class take it with a diffrent professor. He is a great guy, funny, and lectures well. But his exams can be astronomically difficult.
Fall 2018 - This class was extremely difficult I would recogmend not taking it with him. This class is also technically skippable. If you must take this class take it with a diffrent professor. He is a great guy, funny, and lectures well. But his exams can be astronomically difficult.
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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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Spring 2021 - Regan: cool funny guy tests: crazy hard homework: ALOT hbar: stupid human constant don: enlightened the curve: GNARLY fr fr tho, prof is super dope, funny and knowledgeable. He teaches QM with his own twist, which was weird at first but later it kind of grows on you.
Spring 2021 - Regan: cool funny guy tests: crazy hard homework: ALOT hbar: stupid human constant don: enlightened the curve: GNARLY fr fr tho, prof is super dope, funny and knowledgeable. He teaches QM with his own twist, which was weird at first but later it kind of grows on you.
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Winter 2023 - Lemme tell you a thing or two about Chris Regan. First of all, full disclosure I love Regan and the way he teaches this class. He probably teaches it the best out of what I've heard since I heard Paul Hamilton spent nearly half of the quarter on review in Fall. If Regan did that I think I would lose my mind. I will say, his homework was a lot, and his office hours seemed shitty since he would just go on rants. If you have homework questions, definitely find a friend or pray you have a good TA like we did. If your goal is to do minimal work and get this class over with, maybe wait for someone other than Regan. However, if your goal is to learn and be excited to go to class then DEFINITELY TAKE IT WITH REGAN. Some specifics: - he spent one week on review (which I liked since I wanted to learn new shit). - He baited us by teaching us geometric algebra, and it will seem wacky at first but its properties give INSANE intuition for Pauli spin algebra. - He also taught way out of the book with the Dirac equation, which was fucking sick. - lastly, his exams were super fair. Even if the homework might have been rough at times, he yoinked problems straight from the work and practice exams up to just legit changing numbers on some of em. - most importantly, I was actually excited to go to class every day and I always felt like I was learning something new. TLDR: teaches well, hw rough, but ez exam and curve make up for it.
Winter 2023 - Lemme tell you a thing or two about Chris Regan. First of all, full disclosure I love Regan and the way he teaches this class. He probably teaches it the best out of what I've heard since I heard Paul Hamilton spent nearly half of the quarter on review in Fall. If Regan did that I think I would lose my mind. I will say, his homework was a lot, and his office hours seemed shitty since he would just go on rants. If you have homework questions, definitely find a friend or pray you have a good TA like we did. If your goal is to do minimal work and get this class over with, maybe wait for someone other than Regan. However, if your goal is to learn and be excited to go to class then DEFINITELY TAKE IT WITH REGAN. Some specifics: - he spent one week on review (which I liked since I wanted to learn new shit). - He baited us by teaching us geometric algebra, and it will seem wacky at first but its properties give INSANE intuition for Pauli spin algebra. - He also taught way out of the book with the Dirac equation, which was fucking sick. - lastly, his exams were super fair. Even if the homework might have been rough at times, he yoinked problems straight from the work and practice exams up to just legit changing numbers on some of em. - most importantly, I was actually excited to go to class every day and I always felt like I was learning something new. TLDR: teaches well, hw rough, but ez exam and curve make up for it.
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