PHYSICS 5C
Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course 5A. Electrostatics in vacuum and in water. Electricity, circuits, magnetism, quantum, atomic and nuclear physics, radioactivity, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2020 - Physics 5C is all about electrical circuits and currents. It uses some knowledge from 5A, but has much new material. I took this class online during the COVID-19 and the quizzes and exams were uploaded on GradeScope and you had a timer to write out your answers and submit a pdf. There were 4 quizzes with one being dropped and a midterm and final. There was weekly homework on Mastering Assignments (easily found on the internet). The lectures were recorded so there was no requirement of attendance in lecture. Lab was mandatory and did take the full 2 Hours. The discussion was not mandatory. I would recommend reading the textbook as it clarifies what the professor teaches. This professor is patient and very communicative.
Spring 2020 - Physics 5C is all about electrical circuits and currents. It uses some knowledge from 5A, but has much new material. I took this class online during the COVID-19 and the quizzes and exams were uploaded on GradeScope and you had a timer to write out your answers and submit a pdf. There were 4 quizzes with one being dropped and a midterm and final. There was weekly homework on Mastering Assignments (easily found on the internet). The lectures were recorded so there was no requirement of attendance in lecture. Lab was mandatory and did take the full 2 Hours. The discussion was not mandatory. I would recommend reading the textbook as it clarifies what the professor teaches. This professor is patient and very communicative.
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Spring 2019 - I learned the most in this physics class than I did in 5A and 5B. The homework is worth 10% and she gives quite a bit of extra credit on it as well. Labs are worth 15% and they're really easy (its a worksheet). The two midterms are worth 40% and the final is worth 30%. She does prelecture questions on mastering which are worth 5%. Honestly, get a Chegg account and you'll get over a 100% on the assignments. The exams are extremely easy and the questions come directly from her slides. Do the quickcheck questions because she copies and pastes those on the mc of the exam. Overall a super sweet and easy professor!
Spring 2019 - I learned the most in this physics class than I did in 5A and 5B. The homework is worth 10% and she gives quite a bit of extra credit on it as well. Labs are worth 15% and they're really easy (its a worksheet). The two midterms are worth 40% and the final is worth 30%. She does prelecture questions on mastering which are worth 5%. Honestly, get a Chegg account and you'll get over a 100% on the assignments. The exams are extremely easy and the questions come directly from her slides. Do the quickcheck questions because she copies and pastes those on the mc of the exam. Overall a super sweet and easy professor!
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Spring 2020 - I took this class during the corona quarter as well so please keep that in mind. Here's a breakdown of the class: 10% HW 15% Lab 20% MT1 20% MT2 35% Final Jiang's lectures were pretty dry (perhaps because I wasn't that interested in the material), but I think he explains things pretty well. He recorded his zoom lectures so I ended up watching them on CCLE at a faster speed. He kind of has an accent if that bothers any of you at all, but it didn't make that much of a difference for me. He did open note midterms on MasteringPhysics with 4 multi-part questions. Each part had 3 tries and if you did the homework he assigned and maybe the problems at the end of each chapter, you were pretty much set to get a 100. The homework he assigned each week was usually 7 or 8 mastering problems which were pretty easy if you a) went to lecture or b) read the book. I personally didn't take the final because of everything that happened at the end of this quarter, and he was kind enough to let us take an optional final. I looked at the final and it wasn't too bad as long as you paid attention in class and did the practice final he sent , but I was thoroughly checked out by the end of spring so it looked hard to me. Anyway, Jiang is a really sweet professor
Spring 2020 - I took this class during the corona quarter as well so please keep that in mind. Here's a breakdown of the class: 10% HW 15% Lab 20% MT1 20% MT2 35% Final Jiang's lectures were pretty dry (perhaps because I wasn't that interested in the material), but I think he explains things pretty well. He recorded his zoom lectures so I ended up watching them on CCLE at a faster speed. He kind of has an accent if that bothers any of you at all, but it didn't make that much of a difference for me. He did open note midterms on MasteringPhysics with 4 multi-part questions. Each part had 3 tries and if you did the homework he assigned and maybe the problems at the end of each chapter, you were pretty much set to get a 100. The homework he assigned each week was usually 7 or 8 mastering problems which were pretty easy if you a) went to lecture or b) read the book. I personally didn't take the final because of everything that happened at the end of this quarter, and he was kind enough to let us take an optional final. I looked at the final and it wasn't too bad as long as you paid attention in class and did the practice final he sent , but I was thoroughly checked out by the end of spring so it looked hard to me. Anyway, Jiang is a really sweet professor
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Summer 2020 - Class Structure was very VERY kind: - 40% problem sets (no Mastering Physics) - 15% lab - 10% discussion participation - 10% midterm 1 - 10% midterm 2 - 15% final I liked this class. Professor Mills was extremely accommodating and poured so many hours into this class: 2 hours of office hours 2-3 times a week, attending every discussion, staying after class to answer questions. There was always support offered and available to students, and Professor Mills was very receptive to feedback. She offered us revisions after every major exam (final included), and had a huge emphasis on the teaching/learning aspect of the course: in her eyes, as long as the resources and opportunities she offered were contributing to our improved physics understanding, she would continue to make them available to us. There were some organizational issues with the class, but that can be attributed to the fact that this was Professor Mills' first time teaching Physics 5C. With that came the responsibility of creating completely new course materials (problem sets and exams) as we went along in the quarter, and in my opinion, she executed fairly well and always ensured the situation was fair to students. Now that these materials have been created, I imagine that future iterations of the course will be even more successful. I do recommend Professor Mills for Physics 5C!
Summer 2020 - Class Structure was very VERY kind: - 40% problem sets (no Mastering Physics) - 15% lab - 10% discussion participation - 10% midterm 1 - 10% midterm 2 - 15% final I liked this class. Professor Mills was extremely accommodating and poured so many hours into this class: 2 hours of office hours 2-3 times a week, attending every discussion, staying after class to answer questions. There was always support offered and available to students, and Professor Mills was very receptive to feedback. She offered us revisions after every major exam (final included), and had a huge emphasis on the teaching/learning aspect of the course: in her eyes, as long as the resources and opportunities she offered were contributing to our improved physics understanding, she would continue to make them available to us. There were some organizational issues with the class, but that can be attributed to the fact that this was Professor Mills' first time teaching Physics 5C. With that came the responsibility of creating completely new course materials (problem sets and exams) as we went along in the quarter, and in my opinion, she executed fairly well and always ensured the situation was fair to students. Now that these materials have been created, I imagine that future iterations of the course will be even more successful. I do recommend Professor Mills for Physics 5C!
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