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
10.0 / 10
Organization
10.0 / 10
Time
10-15 hrs/week
Overall
10.0 / 10

Enrollment Progress

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Reviews

    Quarter Taken: Winter 2018 In-Person
    Grade: A+

    Bondarenko is/was probably the best physics instructor at UCLA. Every lecture is prepared impeccably, and notes for each lecture are promptly uploaded to CCLE. I would've liked a bit more demonstration (that Prof. Kusenko is known to do) though.

    One tip for exams. Try to keep intermediate values be expressed in terms of variables, and only plug in variables at the end. This reduces the time needed to punch everything into the calculator and subsequently copy it back to paper. I didn't do very well on the first midterm (ran out of time), but after I noticed that's what he does in lecture, I did pretty well on both the second midterm and the final.

Course

Instructor
Anton Bondarenko
Previously taught
19S 18W

Grading Information

  • No group projects

  • Attendance not required

  • 2 midterms

  • Finals week final

  • 100% recommend the textbook

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