Chris Herdman

We somehow got to the point where we were behind on course content, leading to a disconnect in themes between lab and lecture. An additional issue was that the homework exams were rarely returned in a timely manner to be relevant to your learning. In the end, the curve saved me and countless other people.

Probably my favorite class in the physics major. Herdman's lectures work really well for me. The class was super interesting and the coursework was generally manageable. The take-home midterm took me 25 hours, and the problem set the week after took me 20 hours, but the rest of the assignments were in the 6-10 hour range, which is typical for an upper level physics class. The final was also a 20 hour ordeal. If you do the work, you'll get a good grade and learn a lot.

Probably my favorite class in the physics major. Herdman's lectures work really well for me. The class was super interesting and the coursework was generally manageable. The take-home midterm took me 25 hours, and the problem set the week after took me 20 hours, but the rest of the assignments were in the 6-10 hour range, which is ty …Read more

The course was very fast paced and homework intensive. I found the pacing to be terrible which made the class much more difficult than it had to be. At one point we were 4 weeks behind schedule and had to catch up at the end of the semester which made the content much harder to grasp. Other than that expect to be constantly studying as the material is not intuitive but I found it be pretty interesting.

The course was very fast paced and homework intensive. I found the pacing to be terrible which made the class much more difficult than it had to be. At one point we were 4 weeks behind schedule and had to catch up at the end of the semester which made the content much harder to grasp. Other than that expect to be constantly studying …Read more