This was the least deserved A of my life.

Reuter is a sweet middle aged European man. He's friendly, typically is in a good mood, and is usually on time. Lectures are borderline unintelligible, especially as he switches to slides instead of chalk boarding once the content becomes harder in 3D. Class is structured to be ridiculously easy. Grading is generous with 6 quizzes each worth 5%, homework totaling 20%, and two exams each worth 25%. Homework is always taken directly from the textbook. Textbook has answer keys in the back, and a worked out solution manual is easily pirateable off libgen or annas archive. It is very feasible to go into the final with a near 100%. Exams have some extra credit too, and quiz grades rarely dip below 90 due to generous grading. The tradeoff is that discussion attendance is borderline mandatory.

The crux of this class is in the name - Dynamics of Particles pre-midterm, and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies post-midterm. Dynamics of Particles is Physics 1A, but again. There are legitimately next to no differences compared to 1A. Kinematics, Kinetics, Work-Energy Theorem, Rotation, Inertia, Momentum. Same stuff as AP Physics. You very well may take this content for the 3rd time in a row. There's a tiny amount of calculus, and a fair amount of cross products, but there's really no difficulty in this half.

The shit hits the fan around week 5/6. Rigid bodies are a nightmare, and the the calculations required to expand from particles become so hairy so fast. I highly recommend purchasing a TI Nspire or another calculator that performs cross products, because you have to do so many. This is new content, and it doesn't make sense. I had no intuition for it, so I made up basically everything I did. Go to office hours, make sure you understand every single lecture, and don't let your grades deceive you into thinking you're prepared for the final. You have to know everything.

Final was graded extremely generously, and I got a C+ despite putting forth a D- effort. Ended the class with an unsatisfying A and a sour taste in my mouth, plus I feel boned for 162A. Rigid Body Dynamics are a bitch, and while they may seem easier than the other 10X level classes, this content needs your attention. Don't make my mistakes, and you should bag the easiest A of your life.

There are weekly homework assignments (~5 quick problems) and quizzes (one problem, 20 minutes, start of discussion). There's also one midterm. We're allowed half a page of notes on each quiz and midterm.

I was able to get through most of the homework and quizzes just applying knowledge from physics 1A with ten minutes of google queries. I stopped going to the lectures after a while since I didn't find them particularly useful — still ended up with an A-. This class isn't too hard.

Lenient grader amd has good lectures even if they sound repetitive after a while