PHYS 2010

This is a review for Atsushi Yoshida (who goes by his last name). This professor is not listed, so I will write my review under faculty and staff. I took this class during the summer of 2020 (online due to COVID-19). I must say that (as a rising second-year) this is by far the WORST COLLEGE CLASS THAT I HAVE EVER TAKEN. We had to watch lecture videos that were very poor quality. On top of that, the lectures did not go heavily in-depth into the material, but he tested us on material that was way harder than what was covered in the lecture. The exam questions combined and muddled many concepts together, and he told us to "use our intuition". And how are we supposed to do that????!!?!?! This is the grading breakdown: 10% Homework, 10% Daily Quizzes (fifteen total), 20% for each midterm, 40% for the final exam. The quizzes and exams are multiple-choice questions (each question out of 10: 6 choices, you get one point for choosing the correct answer and 1 point for each question that you eliminate, so you can put more than one answer choice). For example, let's say that A is the correct answer choice; if you put ABF as your answer, you will get 8/10 points: 5 points for choosing A and 3 points for eliminating C, D, and E. You end up losing points many points two ways: you are too confident and put only one choice down and it's wrong (you only get 4/10 points for correctly eliminating four of the answer choice) or you completely misunderstand the question and place more than one answer and they are all wrong. For instance, the correct answer is E, but you put ABD, you only get 2/10 points for correctly eliminating C and F. Worst case scenario: the correct answer is F and you put ABCDE, that's 0/10 points. In short, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. I am a Premed and I understand that Premeds try to knock this class out of the way during the summer, as Physics classes are just awful, but I STRONGLY RECOMMEND not taking this class with Atsushi Yoshida, especially if we still have to have classes online next summer. Yoshida only teaches this class during the summer. I'm so glad that after getting a B in this class, I immediately dropped PHYS 2020 and took RELG1040 instead (which I would highly recommend). Yoshida is also a real strict on submitting things on time to the second, with a one point penalty for every minute that you are late. The daily quizzes consist two questions that we have 15 minutes to do. The homework problem sets are also an absolute nightmare. During office hours, he takes 45 minutes to explain just one question. In short, this class is way too hard for an introductory class. Premeds, DO NOT take this class nor PHYS2020 during the summer with Yoshida.