Chris Herdman

The topics covered in the class are understandably complicated, and fairly abstract. Weekly homework assignments were at times a bit farther behind the lectures, which wasn't always great. Prof. Herdman's teaching didn't feel like it always lined up with the way we'd do actual problems we had on homework sets, it felt like there was a bit too much of a leap we had to make at times.

The topics covered in the class are understandably complicated, and fairly abstract. Weekly homework assignments were at times a bit farther behind the lectures, which wasn't always great. Prof. Herdman's teaching didn't feel like it always lined up with the way we'd do actual problems we had on homework sets, it felt like there was …Read more

This course is definetly a good choice for a physics elective. The material is interesting and useful for grad school courses. The lectures were interesting, and involved plenty of worked problems in groups. However, half of our problem sets didn't get graded, so our final grades were generally "vibes" based.

His teaching style is much more geared towards advanced courses (like PHYS318, 330 and 350), so would definitely recommend taking these courses with him. The actual physics in the class is a little abstract at times, but work with classmates and it's definitely doable!