Chris Herdman

This course was at first very difficult to wrap my head around but got easier as it went on. The exams were fair and so was the grading. Sometimes I felt like the lectures weren’t very helpful and I learned more from doing the reading instead.

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.