PHYS 1425

Don't waste your time going to class

He made many mistakes during lectures which hindered my ability to learn, because I stopped trusting what he was telling us.

This class is really hard but unfortunately it's required. I've heard bad things about Conetti, so I recommend you take it with Norum. Everyone fails the exams so as long as you stay above the average you're fine.

Awful class.

The problems on the mid-terms and the final are nothing like the homeworks. Lecture doesn't help very much, and reading the book will only help you but so much. My suggestion: study and do the work in groups, it helps a lot.

One of the most complained about class for a first-year e-schooler. Lectures don't help at all, no one ever goes, you can't hear him or read his blackboard notes, tests have average of 40% to 60%, homeworks are totally irrelevant, and one of the most frustrating classes EVER. Many opted to take physics somewhere else, you should too.

The class was really boring. Norum is an awful professor. The tests are really hard but there is a very generous curve for this course. Doing HW problems doesn't help much in this class as the problems on the test are completely unrelated to the HW problems.

50% of the 2011 class cheated on their final. Honorable people who had above-average scores throughout the course ended up with below-average grades. If you take this class, have some integrity.

This class was probably different for me because I took it during the summer, but I didn't think Norum was all that bad. His lectures were pretty much straight from the book, but he was easy to understand and follow. He would even crack a joke or two. Homework was time consuming and tests were very tough, with the average hovering around a 60%, but there is a big curve and he was generous with partial credit. The final was along the same lines as the test, but if you were able to Ace it, it would replace your final grade.

I came into this class feeling pretty confident about physics but boy was I wrong.. this class goes super fast (new unit every week, aka every 2 lectures) and it's very easy to sort-of/not-really understand things and google your way through webassign, until the exam comes and you're fucked. Did this for the first two exams (which are straightforward but very hard if you don't thoroughly understand the material), but actually took the time to learn everything before the final and got a 95. I learned that the nice thing is that physics is not really studyable so if you stay on top of things, and actually figure out the webassigns throughout the class, you won't need to study for the exams since they just test concepts.