PHYS 2010

I found Professor Paschke to be extremely funny and extremely engaging during lectures. He did a lot of demonstrations for us to illustrate the physical phenomena which I believe truly helped me understand. He was a lot better than Professor Hung and I found myself switching sections to the 9:30 AM one just to be in a class with Paschke.

But, I suppose if you're on The Course Forum you are more interested in learning about the grading.

The course with Paschke is curved to a B+. Performing average (~64%) on the three midterms and final (which all get curved at the END of the course) will get you a B+. If you are more ambitious, he usually publishes the statistics of the grade distribution when revealing the averages and an A- generally corresponds to being one standard deviation above the average. Ultimately, this class was worthwhile and was not too difficult; just do a lot of practice problems on Mastering Physics and within the textbook in order to learn problem solving methodologies for the exams.