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Paschke is not a great professor, but he is nice. He tries to explain concepts, but brushes over or mumbles explanations often.. leaving most students utterly confused. Essentially, you can probably do well in this class by skimming over the reading before lecture (clicker questions), and doing lots of practice problems/going to TA OH.. exams are definitely difficult, but not impossible...practice/study hard enough and with the curve you can do fairly well in this class if you want.
Overall a pretty frustrating class for people who haven't taken AP Physics before in high school. HW questions are a lot harder than the ones on the exam. Plus Paschke just talks to himself in class and teaches all the stuffs straight from the textbook. No point in going to the lecture except for the clicker questions.
Physics is not fun. The lab blows, but the lecture is doable. The class average for the course is set to a B, so as long as you do better than that.. your pre-health GPA won't suffer too much. It's a little disappointing the Physics department here doesn't have better teachers, because Paschke is fine but Norum seriously is horrible. Do whatever you can not to get Norum.
Paschke is also accessible, though he only has office hours 1 hour a week (kind of lame). I only went once, because he clearly is more into his research than "wasting time" with undergraduates.
Anyways, sorry you have to take Physics here at UVA. But, if you do, take it with Paschke.
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