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.