This class is hard.

Professor Niemann does not curve at all, though he did drop 1 more quiz than he said he would :)
Niemann is also pretty cool, he wouldn't hesitate to delete quiz questions that had typos and was on top of his email. When I got my final grade, I was confident it was what I earned. Plus, his "good morning class" every morning was very inexplicably uplifting.

The quizzes were my least favorite part of this class, as they could only be taken at 8am and often took 1-2 hours. Coffee helped. There was no midterm, so each quiz had the potential to shred your grade down to its last atom. Watch out! :(

Homework was fine, with minimal effort you can be get a 90%+ average if you've watched the lectures and have a calculator handy. It's a website by Pearson, though, so yuck :(

Discussion sheets graded by effort, not correctness, though some of them were HARD ASF and didn't enhance my understanding so much as induce confusion and panic :\

Final was more than fair content-wise: 24 hour window, open-note, but took ~8 hours of work to get an A just because of the number of questions :\

If you gotta take this class, just do it. It doesn't get better than this.

Decent professor when it comes to office hours and lectures, but he formatted the class horribly in terms of exams and grading.

I also took his class online, his class, let me say was a lot of work!!! You are really going to have to put in the effort and mindset to be able to stay on track and focused and yes, you will have to go out of your way on learning the material. He tries his best to teach and he really does care about the class, it's just online learning is hard and this class is known to be difficult. Again, you put in the effort to stay on top of this class, you will do fine.

Niemann taught this class well. The class consisted of asynchronous lectures, weekly HW, and a weekly discussion worksheet. There were no midterms, instead there were 4 quizzes. The difficulty of the quizzes and tests varied from pretty difficult to not that hard, with averages around a B+. The HW is pretty easy and the discussion worksheet is completion based. Niemann fixed broken questions on the quizzes quickly and his lectures were very clear. He doesn't waste time with things that don't show up, material on the lectures is almost always relevant. However, the material itself is pretty hard, especially if this is your 2nd physics class ever. Niemann is a solid choice, so if you have the opportunity to take his course, do it.

Niemann is a great professor. He said his goal was to have us never read the textbook and just watch lectures, which was very helpful and saved lots of time. Instead of midterms he had 4 biweekly quizzes which made the class low-stress and studying for the quizzes wasn't overwhelming. All of the exams were very representative of what we'd learned, and didn't have curveballs or material outside what we covered.

Overall this is one of the best 1B professors you'll get. He's super clear, and unlike other professors focuses more on making sure you understand the general concepts rather than doing lots of fancy derivations and theoretical calculations. Very akin to introductory AP Physics classes for most of the problems. The quizzes were a bit annoying and most points were lost on problems that he never really went over which was frustrating, but the rest of the problems were extremely straightforward: a mix of plug and chug questions as well as a few simple and general theoretical questions (which should be understood if you're doing the hwk and taking notes during lecture). Solid class overall.

I took this during the pandemic, so it was all recorded online. It was very consistent and good, and lectures were great too. He was always available for outside help.

The only hard thing with this class was the time commitment. There was one quiz, discussion worksheet, homework problems and four lectures every week. The quiz took 1-2 hours usually, the sheet took 1 hour, the homework took 3 hours, and the lectures were an hour each.

Other than the workload, I think this class was great. It was very clear and he was a great professor overall.

Probably one of the best physics professors you can get. Quizzes every other week and then a final which combined comprised of 65% of your grade (10 per quiz, 25 final) with the rest of the points coming from homework and worksheets graded for participation. At the end he even lets you make up some of the homework points you missed so basically a guaranteed hundred. The quizzes were a bit annoying because the system was very unforgiving with mistakes and there's no partial credit but if the question was visibly bad he'd often remove them and give everyone points. He also even gave us a 24 hour final which comprised of both a kudu section as well as a gradescope portion so you get a good mix of problems (and honestly the kudu problems were much more simple than normal??). The lecture were quite nice with lots of example problems and he was super responsive to emails and I overall just had a pretty good time. Highly recommend :3

Great professor. Made this class much easier than a lot of students on other classes because he tells you what you need to know, and the homework is predictive of the quizzes and final. He spends a lot of time going over real world applications, but to be honest, I just skipped all of that. I would definitely recommend him, 10/10.

Decent professor. Homework was easy enough on Mastering Physics, and is a good resource to study for exams. I liked the grading format with 4 quizzes instead of a midterm. He gave us 2 hours for these which was more than enough time. The discussion worksheets were impossible. Actually. Like you have to be a computer to solve them, and they're completely irrelevant to the class so don't waste your time! Just bs something or copy a TA's work.