Bruh actually easy as hell stop whining

Hershfield is the goat

This course isn't hard. I got a B- because I just didn't care. PHY2049's difficulty tends to be overblown by students. Yes, the exams are difficult. Yes, the concepts are not very intuitive. However, alot of these can be ironed out with more practice. Now, the problem develops when the teachers give hardly any practice that you are mandated to do. 10 Homework problems a week, 1 quiz a week. Thats all the practice you get. Add that up, its on average 40 hw problems and 4 quizzes before the exams. Compare that to a class like Differential Equations, where you'll have done hundreds, and you begin to see that the difficulty comes not from the concepts, but from the professors not giving much practice to students. So, students have to seek out the practice themselves, which is hard to do if you...read more

Covers Electricity and Magnetism. Useful down the line, but any concept from this class that you will need will be quickly refreshed in a class that requires it.

Korytov is a nice guy, gives out "bonus points" (which aren't worth anything). Has a very thick russian accent that makes him hard to understand, and also his slides are pretty useless for the homework. (2/5) Selman is Physics Jesus, and makes the concepts easy to understand. (5/5)

Just get motivated, and do like 5 practice exams before the actual exam, and you should know enough to get atleast 14/20 on it. If you're consistent enough, you can score an A- or an A assuming you do the other course work and get all the Iclickers.

The second half of the physics sequence for most stem majors. Its difficulty is overblown. Somewhat challenging concepts but ridiculously generous grading.

Electromagnetism, starting with electrostatic forces and moving on to fields, flux, circuits, magnets, em waves, and light. Not super relevant to a meche major but needed for anything with circuits/other electronics.

They rotate. Korytov is meh, he's nice enough but he focuses too much on deriving formulae as opposed to showing how to solve problems (3 stars). Hershfield is really good and gives hints for homework (5 stars).

The textbook is useless for exams and practice exams are super useful. Just grind them out before exams and you'll be fine.

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

This course goes over magnetism, electromagnetism, electricity, and some circuitry stuff. There are a ton of formulas you'll need to know how to use. That's the kicker, though. They give you the formula sheets, which contain everything you need to know, right? The problem is, the formulas from the sheet are almost never in the right format for you to use, which can mislead you a lot of the time. Furthermore, they use the formula sheets as a justification for stuffing as many topics as they can on a single exam. For me, the issue with the class is that neither the professors nor the discussion sessions actually go over how to solve the problems on the quizzes, exams, and homework. They all want to focus on the conceptual material and leave the problem solving entirely up to us. It doesn'...read more

The class is swapped between two professors, but that doesn't matter, because there is no reason to go to lectures. Save yourself the time and just watch the Study Edge videos. I stopped going to lectures after horribly failing the first exam. I picked up the Study Edge and my grades improved significantly. They actually teach you what you need to pass the course, unlike the professors. From what little time I spent in class, both the professors are near incomprehensible. The microphone quality doesn't help either. They both have heavy accents. One practically chews on the microphone while the other whispers.

Just save yourself the heartache and buy the Study Edge. A Chegg subscription might help too. You can find most of the homework answers on Toppr, but sometimes the answer is only on Chegg. And since Chegg also has Chemistry solutions, I would recommend it over other platforms. Shout-out to Marty from Study Edge, he's a real one. One last thing: you have the option to make your own formula sheets. I highly recommend that you print out the ones they give you, then on the back of each sheet, copy as many problems as you can from previous exams. They tend to reuse problems. I managed to fit over 60 questions and solutions onto the back of three sheets for the final exam, which saved my bacon.

Since all of my other courses when taking this class were pretty light, it wasn't that hard for me. For context I got a C in physics 1 AND I took it at Santa Fe to make it easier, although I put virtually no effort into that class. I'm not someone who gets straight A's, but for some reason I really wanted to get an A in this class so I'm telling you if you want it you will get it. It really comes down to how much you are willing to study. Lectures were not really helpful at all, I went to about half of them. Didn't read the textbook at all. I watched study edge to go along with the content we were learning and did all the homework (don't chegg it actually learn how to do it). Then a little over a week before each exam I would spend probably 20-40 hours studying. I tried to do 7-8 practice ...read more

I'm a CS major so the content was kinda irrelevant to me lol

Lectures weren't really helpful, studyedge is incredible for this class completely worth the price. Still recommend trying to go to class just to get yourself out of the house and get into the physics mindset, plus you won't forget to do the iClickers.

If you take this in a light semester it won't be hard, if you take this with a bunch of hard STEM classes and have like 3 exams in a week it will be painful.

Extremely difficult. I have never seen so many formulas in my life. Also, the exams are brutal.

Covers Maxwells equations and optics.

Not good at explaining but patient

This class is for those with strong math and physics backgrounds.

Lots of physics content crammed into a single course. Average for first exam was a 55%.

Content covers electricity and magnetism, light physics.

Flips through the slides very fast, reading the textbook and going to TA's are a must for this course.

The two physics profs interchange every two weeks.