Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics

Lecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Mathematics 31A, 31B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 32A. Motion, Newton laws, work, energy, linear and angular momentum, rotation, equilibrium, gravitation. P/NP or letter grading.

Review Summary

Clarity
6.7 / 10
Organization
3.3 / 10
Time
0-5 hrs/week
Overall
3.3 / 10

Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A

    You need to read the textbook a lot to understand what's going on.

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2023 In-Person
    Grade: A-

    I came into this class having taken AP Physics 1, and it's basically a repeat of that course, but VVV makes it harder. Honestly, if I came in not knowing anything I would've been a lot worse off; most of what I knew came from high school, and trying to relearn concepts in this class confused me more. Reading the textbook was very helpful, and all the homework came from the textbook. If you do all the homework problems, you get a bit of extra credit from that, which is very much needed after taking the midterms and especially the final. At one point in our final everyone was so confused VVV started trying to explain the problem on the whiteboard.

Course

Instructor
Vladimir Vassiliev
Previously taught
24S 24W 23W

Grading Information

  • No group projects

  • Attendance required

  • 2 midterms

  • Finals week final

  • 100% recommend the textbook

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