Paul Hess

The material isnt inherently hard but I think the way they set-up the course is to make it so you can't just breeze by memorizing formulas but having to dig into each word problem to find hints of how to solve it based on like one word.

I enjoyed this course but there is certainly a lot of homework all of the time and there are 4 total exams across the semester. Professor Hess is a nice guy and good at explaining things when talking to him at office hours.

I loved this class! It was definitely challenging at times since there are so many formulas and variables to keep track of but the professor is very organized and provided us with super helpful formula sheets that we could annotate as well as access to all of the lecture slides which were neat and included important formulas in boxes. I had to take this class for my major as I am an MBBC major and was initially not excited about it since I don't love physics. However, I LOVED this class! Paul Hess is a great professor. He explained concepts well and incorporated lots of examples of how to actually use the theory and formulas on real problems. There were typically two problem sets a week but they usually weren't too long and there were plenty of opportunities to go to office hours with Hess or the TAs. We had three exams and a final. The exams were fair as was the grading of the exams. There were lots of practice problems to do before the exam that helped me to prepare and the exam questions were similar to questions on problem sets! Physics still isn't my favorite but I loved this class and Hess was super enthusiastic about the material and always incorporated a ton of super cool and relavent demos that kept me interested and engaged. He also put current real world examples of physics on the board like the Olympics and the Apollo spaceship.

I loved this class! It was definitely challenging at times since there are so many formulas and variables to keep track of but the professor is very organized and provided us with super helpful formula sheets that we could annotate as well as access to all of the lecture slides which were neat and included important formulas in boxes …Read more