Great professor with clear lectures and interesting demos. He's quite understanding as well in case you can't take the test at the regular time. The class is well organized and the TAs and LAs did a great job at each discussion. The grading is fair--there's a straight scale with 5% for each grade, so 90%+ is A, 85-90% is A-, 80-85% is B+, etc. The pace of the class is roughly 1 chapter per week with 2 chapters a week near the last few weeks which was rough. Discussions are mandatory with a worksheet due at the end of discussion.

There are three midterms, 2 worth 15% and the first worth 5%. They aren't too bad although you should expect double jeopardy in that if you get something wrong in part a, but is used in b, c, d, e, etc. you'll get marked off for all those parts so your grade can drop significantly over a small mistake. Workload is manageable--about 10 to 12 book problems each week assigned on Pearson due Monday night.

Only thing I didn't like was that on Pearson, you immediately lost 20-50% of your grade if you got a MC question incorrect. This is different from free response questions where you get 6 tries and don't lose any points until you've used up all your attempts. Other than that, great class, would definitely take Professor Hauser again.

Good professor.

Super chill prof with reasonable expectations; I loved this guy. Jay is always down to answer questions and performs cool demos in class. Class was recorded. No curve, but honestly not super necessary. Exam problems are like the medium level problems on the homework. He reuses questions from previous exams, so use those to study.

The lecture sometimes becomes boring. The two MTs are not hard but the final is a little bit difficult.

After falling out of love with physics with Corbin, Hauser reinvigorated that love with good lectures and fair exams

This class is pretty easy if you do all of the homeworks and discussion worksheets, both of which are manageable. Hauser follows the textbook fairly closely and posts his lecture notes, so you can follow those if you prefer that method of learning.

He does lots of very cool demos that show the physics principles in action. It helps quantify what you're actually learning. He is extremely broad in lecturing, and it honestly gets confusing sometimes when you end up trying the homework and don't really have an idea. He also skipped some ideas, such as Poynting vectors, which kind of shoots you in the foot if you're there to really learn. I prefer Corbin lectures by comparison since he goes more in depth. He uses a straight scale, which means 92-98 is an A, 90-92 is A-, etc. It isn't the greatest thing in the world, especially since his midterms are out of 40 points, and the final is out of 80 points. Getting a little part wrong is super detrimental. I got an A- on one of the midterms purely because I forgot the units on one of my answers, and that was the difference between a 91 and a 93. I also did regrade requests on a midterm and raised my grade from 57% to 64%, which I think is absurd. Overall it's an okay course, but I do think the exams could have had more partial credit or be more forgiving if you get one part wrong.

Hauser is an amazing professor. Despite his lectures being 2 hours long, I still found myself very engaged with a genuine interest in the material. The demos are also great and contributed greatly to my understanding of the material. Definitely recommend revising the homework and discussion worksheets in order to prepare for the tests, which were very fair.

Professor Hauser is an amazing and engaging lecturer with the perfect mix of humor and clear descriptions of concepts. He also does a lot of demos that help us visualize concepts in class, which is super helpful for a visual learner like myself.

Professor Hauser is an engaging lecturer, kind and friendly with the students, and his class demos and experiments really enhance the material we cover. The only room for improvement that I see is the amount of content covered, as in a single lecture we could go over an entire chapter broadly and the knowledge required for homework and exams is way more, so trying to bridge that gap or focus more on certain topics could be helpful.