Loved this class, I felt a bit baited into the midterm because it was harder than expected, but it was fair. Homework is short but really hard and not sufficient for getting a good grade. Prof is really nice and his office hours are very engaging and he will always answer your question very thoroughly.

Make sure you repeat all the examples from the textbook before attempting homework problems to be extra prepared.

Get a copy of Taylor to read before you read the recommended text (Taylor is a bit too simplified but Marion is just horribly thorough for a first read). His lectures are straight outta Marion so make sure you give it a bit of a read before the lectures after reading Taylor (I know a lot of reading but it helps a lot)

The material is kinda rough, you can definitely get through the class without understanding how anything actually works and just memorize procedures but it's a very enjoyable class if you give it time and effort. The prof is great but his exams are hard so come prepared

This class was a little harder than I expected. It's mostly two halves (oscillations and Lagrangians) with some extra stuff sprinkled in at the end. I feel like I didn't really come out of that class knowing how to apply the physics to a problem — more so that I can just plug some numbers into a differential equation and solve for an answer. It would've been better if we focused on examples instead of derivations, since some of the derivations were quite long, complex, and not particularly insightful. The tests were quite challenging (midterm was open book, final had one sheet of notes). The homework was also a bit longer than I would've liked.