Bad all round. This instructor did not adapt to online learning well at all

He was a terrible professor who did not care about the students at all. I took the class previously with Corbin, and he was so much better. The class itself was not good at all, and was made unnecessarily hard in a remote setting. The were weekly homeworks, quizzes, midterms over a period of 6 weeks and we only finished 2/3 of the intended content. The professor went too deep into certain topics and it was not useful at all. Furthermore, he ignored students on Campuswire and ignored emails. Don't take this class with Emin whatever you do.

I took this class online over the summer session. All the lectures were pre-recorded to watch at our own pace. The lectures were quite long but he is a good lecturer and was easy to understand and follow. However there were timed assessments EVERY week and they were very difficult with a tight time window. The problems on the exams were much more difficult than the examples in lecture/homework, mostly because they were very time consuming. On our first midterm, the median grade was a 55%. (However, he does curve the grades quite a bit - but this means you're competing with the other students in the class for the best grades.) He often ignored students' concerns over email and Campuswire (especially those of international students). Overall this class was very challenging and I would not recommend this professor.

Professor Emin was incredibly inconsiderate to the requests of international students this Summer. He rarely replied to Campuswire posts and emails, and ignored requests to administer the exams and quizzes (which were timed) in a flexible manner, i.e., 12 hours apart to accommodate students in different time-zones (some of whom had to take quizzes and exams, which were posted late, at 2:30am/5am)

The TA for the course responded to these requests harshly, accusing students of unacceptable behavior.

Avoid this professor at all costs. 0/10.

"Holy sh*t" is the phrase I would use to describe the experience I had with this course. As previous reviews mention, he is absolutely an excellent instructor, and he does some fun hands-on physics demonstrations mostly through the first half of the course. I sat in his lectures for the first two weeks, legitimately enjoying learning physics as much as I could possibly enjoy physics (I don't, really.) Then the first midterm arrived to ruin my summer; it was the hardest test I had ever encountered in my life, harder than AP, harder than SAT. I literally spent the first 30 minutes experiencing pretty severe panic/anxiety attack. The knowledge I gained from doing the University Physics textbook homework, of which the difficulty doesn't even compare to this man's tests, immediately departed from my brain, until I realized that ok maybe i can apply this physics law to some of this problem i've got to try i can't fail
Just thinking about this course is giving me anxiety tension in my heart/chest area, even though I got an A...
Anyways, his grading scheme is 25% each midterm, 50% final, which means you need self-motivation to do the homework, which again isn't very hard compared to the tests but is still useful practice so you can be at least a little bit more prepared, so do all of it. You can expect tests to be very generously curved and/or graded, since I really don't know how I got this A. His lectures are appropriately paced, and sometimes even feel a little slow, and are also taught very simply/concisely/engagingly (which led me toward the lie that maybe his tests would also be easy?). I also don't think he managed to cover all the content he was supposed to.
If you enjoy a good brain-melting, challenging physics problem, this professor might be right for you. If you're just a poor CS student like me trying to fulfill engineering reqs, please, please don't do this to yourself. I think this course has traumatized me in ways that school has never done before.

Mr. Menachekanian is one of the most wonderful instructors you can come by. Clarity of speech, delicacy in communication, love for simplicity and his students is what defines this guy. Absolutely recommended!

Great class, amazing and helpful teacher. The homework was from the book, and his office hours were very helpful.
However, the exams were super hard. The class was time consuming simply because the concepts really had to be ingrained in your brain to do well on exams.
Overall great class. 10/10 with rice