Professor Samani is an amazing educator. He explains math and its applications to physics very well and clearly puts in a lot of effort to make sure his students succeed. You'll have weekly readings from his course notes that will basically explain all of the "theory" and then lecture will be focused on applying the math to examples in physics. There are no problem sets; only optional practice quizzes to help you prepare for weekly quizzes. Even though they're optional, I highly recommend doing a few before the quizzes. Discussion is required - you have to do weekly worksheets in assigned groups and are graded on effort/some completion.

I took it alongside Math 33B and there was a lot of overlapping content, but if you're considering a similar schedule make sure to check the professor because different professors emphasize different topics. This class mainly covered Taylor series, linear algebra (linear independence, eigenvectors), ordinary differential equations and dynamical systems, and Fourier series/transforms.

Samani was an excellent professor and I loved taking this class with him. There are quizzes roughly every week instead of midterms, discussion worksheets, and a final. The discussion worksheets are based off showing up and putting something down on the page, so that's easy. The discussion section I also found to be helpful for the quizzes. The quizzes were very fair and were based off the material covered in lecture as well as the textbook. By the way, Samani wrote his own textbook for this course, which I found to be extremely clear and very helpful. The final exam was pretty difficult, but I thought it was fair overall. My advice would be to really understand the notes he writes, and to make sure you're able to do the practice quizzes he assigns. If you're able to comfortably do the practice quizzes, you will ace the actual quizzes. Also Samani's grading scale is super generous. Overall Samani is a great lecturer and I would totally recommend him.

Probably the best physics class I have taken here so far. Samani is a great lecturer and always makes lectures engaging. He wrote his own mini-textbook for this class and it is amazing for building intuition. His tests and problem sets are pretty hard, but the grading scale is generous. 10/10 would take again.

Samani is a really good lecturer and teacher. His lectures are interesting and he stays on topic in class. He also wrote his own lecture notes for this class which replaced the need for a textbook. His notes are actually pretty short, but very concise and basically everything you need to know for the tests. With that said, his tests are still pretty hard. Great professor overall.