Mechanics - Lecture + Lab · Physics
About 10 problem sets that aren’t due for a grade, 6 quizzes and she’ll drop the lowest one, two midterms, and a final. There’s the option to have the final count for all of your grade. If you take the accompanying lab, lab counts for 20% of your grade.
Pset every week (10 total), 3 exams, final exam.
About 4-6 hours a week for the online material. Make sure you have done the most recent modules before you go to class, otherwise class doesn’t help. He also dislikes absentees. So go to class. If you ace the final, he curves it. It will be your grade. If you do better on the midterm, he weighs the midterm, online material and final to get your grade. How exactly he weighs things he doesn’t say. (Most people I think get As)
A weekly homework, two midterms, and a final. Some problems are rather challenging and are not necessarily mere applications of things learned in class. Others he works out in lecture, so you can basically copy them over and hand them in.
each assignment took roughly 2 hours each, 6 hours outside of lectures. exams are medium difficulty to difficult
Homework once a week. Two open notebook midterms. Final with an equation sheet.
Weekly problem sets (hard, take a good amount of time, but you learn the material well), midterms (I think 2?) and a final. The exams are pretty fair, and much easier than the problem sets.
Professor Mukherjee is super sweet and clearly so intelligent, but she is not the best lecturer. She is very scatter brained and explains things in a pretty unclear way. The class isn’t that challenging, but you will not learn a lot of physics. If you have no physics background, it will be hard. The quizzes only test the easiest problems from the problem sets. If you memorize the first problem from each problem set, you will be set for the quizzes. It’s not too hard to get a good grade in the class without learning a lot.
Horrible professor. Does not give practice exams and her exams are different than what she assigns for homework.
Professor Greene uses his new website (now public!) to teach the class for him. There is a weekly 2 hour session where he reviews the online lessons, which are comprised of “modules, and then the class goes over some harder problem with Brian’s guidance. The modules take somewhere between 1 and 2 hours each and usually 4-5 are assigned a week (there are 44 total). The 2nd to last week of class, we go over things beyond the online course, which is cool, and the final week of class is the final (its not during finals week) but Prof. Greene left this up to a vote and we voted for a week early. The online material is slow and at times tedious and boring, but the problems work for helping you to understand. The final grade is based mostly on your performance on the final exam. I got a lot of the online material wrong, but did well on the final so I did well in the class. After each online problem is an explanation of how to do it which is quite useful. I did not find either the online class or the session especially wonderful but somehow I learned the material (and I certainly did not study anything extra). A few things: It is cool to have a famous professor as your teacher. Brian Greene will NOT know your name if you take this class. Sorry. That being said, he is a hilarious dude, listen to him in the sessions, he is funny when he makes side comments. Watch all the videos on doubl…