Jay Hauser
Department of Physics
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4.6
Overall Rating
Based on 26 Users
Easiness 3.2 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.3 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.1 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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  • Tolerates Tardiness
  • Needs Textbook
  • Engaging Lectures
  • Appropriately Priced Materials
  • Often Funny
  • Would Take Again
  • Useful Textbooks
  • Snazzy Dresser
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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
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June 21, 2021

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.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: N/A
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June 1, 2021

Good professor.

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Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: N/A
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March 12, 2024

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.

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Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: A
March 9, 2024

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.

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Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: A
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March 7, 2024

Professor Hauser is amazing! He is so kind, clear, thoughtful, and caring. Lectures are easy to follow and interesting, and he puts so much effort into all aspects of the course. I learned a lot and had a good time.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: NR
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Dec. 6, 2021

Professor Hauser was a very kind, understanding, and clear professor to follow. I'm typically the kind of person to not go to lecture because the material presented is not explained or really taught. I don't like the blatant use of equations or ideas without an explanation of their use. Professor Hauser did really good to explain the conceptual side of the material, and work towards creating an overall understanding of what was being taught; the why versus the how. Workload is manageable and helpful in studying for the exams. Discussion was the only thing I felt could have been improved. We would only have an hour to complete and submit our work, and given the fact the material would just be taught the week of I'd often feel rushed and unsure of the work I was rushing to scribble down. It'd be awesome for worksheets to be due the following day on gradescope so we'd have time to reflect and think through our work. Other than that, awesome and fun class!

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: B
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June 28, 2021

Took online so might be different. Discussion was mandatory but I found the problems helpful. Professor was an interesting lecturer and clearly cares about the subject. He did a lot of demos which I'm sure would have been way more interesting in person. Just reading the textbook and doing problems was helpful as well. Homework was mastering physics online. It was 3 midterms and final but the first midterm was only worth 5%. All the tests were hard but grading was nice with a lot of partial credit. I never went to his office hours but his TA's office hours were super helpful.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
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June 17, 2021

Excellent professor. Really clear lectures with a lot of demos and real-world examples given. Tests were fair; he is very understanding and accommodating. Would take him again in a heartbeat.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
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June 16, 2021

Hauser is a pretty straight-forward professor. He often did demonstrations even during remote learning which was nice. His homework was standard Mastering Physics stuff, and was pretty light. He was fairly accommodating. Discussions involved graded groupwork which was a little frustrating because all the breakout rooms were completely dead.
Tests were usually 1-hr, 3 problems with like 1-4 parts each. While the problems were not difficult, they were worth very little points, meaning it was very hard to get partial credit. This meant that small mistakes could end up costing you a lot of points. The final was 3-hrs and cumulative, but only 6 problems. Recommended that you read the book.
He does not go very deep into derivations unlike other professors. This can be a pro or con depending on how much physics you intend on taking in the future. He also skipped some sections that he deemed less important.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A-
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June 16, 2021

After having three different professors for the one series, Dr. Hauser is definitely the best professor I had. Even overall, he is one of my favorite professors.

He was very caring, helpful, and clear. His tests were always very fair, and his practice exams gave you a good idea of what you should expect in terms of topics covered and difficulty.

There was a straight curve scale, "with minimum A- level at 85%, B- at 70%, C- at 55%, and D at 40%." Which was nice, I ended with a 90% and got an A-.

In calculating the final class grade, weights are assigned as follows:
Homework: 20%
Midterm 1: 5%
Midterm 2: 15%
Midterm 3: 15%
Final exam: 35%
Discussion section worksheets: 8%
Course and TA evaluations, surveys: 2%

I would happily take a class with him again.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
June 21, 2021

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.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: N/A
June 1, 2021

Good professor.

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Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: N/A
March 12, 2024

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.

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Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: A
March 9, 2024

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.

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Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: A
March 7, 2024

Professor Hauser is amazing! He is so kind, clear, thoughtful, and caring. Lectures are easy to follow and interesting, and he puts so much effort into all aspects of the course. I learned a lot and had a good time.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: NR
Dec. 6, 2021

Professor Hauser was a very kind, understanding, and clear professor to follow. I'm typically the kind of person to not go to lecture because the material presented is not explained or really taught. I don't like the blatant use of equations or ideas without an explanation of their use. Professor Hauser did really good to explain the conceptual side of the material, and work towards creating an overall understanding of what was being taught; the why versus the how. Workload is manageable and helpful in studying for the exams. Discussion was the only thing I felt could have been improved. We would only have an hour to complete and submit our work, and given the fact the material would just be taught the week of I'd often feel rushed and unsure of the work I was rushing to scribble down. It'd be awesome for worksheets to be due the following day on gradescope so we'd have time to reflect and think through our work. Other than that, awesome and fun class!

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: B
June 28, 2021

Took online so might be different. Discussion was mandatory but I found the problems helpful. Professor was an interesting lecturer and clearly cares about the subject. He did a lot of demos which I'm sure would have been way more interesting in person. Just reading the textbook and doing problems was helpful as well. Homework was mastering physics online. It was 3 midterms and final but the first midterm was only worth 5%. All the tests were hard but grading was nice with a lot of partial credit. I never went to his office hours but his TA's office hours were super helpful.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
June 17, 2021

Excellent professor. Really clear lectures with a lot of demos and real-world examples given. Tests were fair; he is very understanding and accommodating. Would take him again in a heartbeat.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
June 16, 2021

Hauser is a pretty straight-forward professor. He often did demonstrations even during remote learning which was nice. His homework was standard Mastering Physics stuff, and was pretty light. He was fairly accommodating. Discussions involved graded groupwork which was a little frustrating because all the breakout rooms were completely dead.
Tests were usually 1-hr, 3 problems with like 1-4 parts each. While the problems were not difficult, they were worth very little points, meaning it was very hard to get partial credit. This meant that small mistakes could end up costing you a lot of points. The final was 3-hrs and cumulative, but only 6 problems. Recommended that you read the book.
He does not go very deep into derivations unlike other professors. This can be a pro or con depending on how much physics you intend on taking in the future. He also skipped some sections that he deemed less important.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A-
June 16, 2021

After having three different professors for the one series, Dr. Hauser is definitely the best professor I had. Even overall, he is one of my favorite professors.

He was very caring, helpful, and clear. His tests were always very fair, and his practice exams gave you a good idea of what you should expect in terms of topics covered and difficulty.

There was a straight curve scale, "with minimum A- level at 85%, B- at 70%, C- at 55%, and D at 40%." Which was nice, I ended with a 90% and got an A-.

In calculating the final class grade, weights are assigned as follows:
Homework: 20%
Midterm 1: 5%
Midterm 2: 15%
Midterm 3: 15%
Final exam: 35%
Discussion section worksheets: 8%
Course and TA evaluations, surveys: 2%

I would happily take a class with him again.

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4.6
Overall Rating
Based on 26 Users
Easiness 3.2 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.3 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.1 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Tolerates Tardiness
    (6)
  • Needs Textbook
    (8)
  • Engaging Lectures
    (8)
  • Appropriately Priced Materials
    (7)
  • Often Funny
    (5)
  • Would Take Again
    (8)
  • Useful Textbooks
    (9)
  • Snazzy Dresser
    (4)
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