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Jordan Goodman PHYS105 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2023	Shows a lot of passion for physics in his lectures making it an interesting class. This is definitely a gen ed. I would recommend and you should take it with Professor Goodman.
Jordan Goodman PHYS105 Expecting an A anonymous1 12/13/2023	Goodman is a really nice guy, very enthusiastic about what he teaches. He's very down to earth and his lectures are equal part scary and about the world ending and equal part funny because he's sarcastic. Definitely recommend him, but don't necessarily recommend the class. The math is just algebra, but word problems can be confusing. Luckily exams are mostly concept questions from lecture, so definitely go and also take the random quizzes that pop on Elms every once in a while (he might forget to tell you about them). Good content in this class, worth learning --but the discussion feels like a separate class from the lectures. Be prepared to do a lot of conversion computations and basics physics: force, kinetic energy, etc
Jordan Goodman PHYS105 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/29/2023	Dr. Goodman is an amazing person. His lectures are pretty interesting, and he's a nice guy. That being said, the work he gives in the discussion periods is pretty dull. 99% of it is unit conversions from the beginning of the semester to the very end. If you haven't taken a math class since the start of college, it might be a little difficult for the first month, but not for the whole semester. It gets old and makes the discussion work seem very pointless. But other than that, I have no complaints.
Jordan Goodman PHYS105 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/01/2022	This course is unorganized. There were many quizzes that we didn't even know existed until the deadline passed. Assignments kept randomly popping up with due dates the next days. The group projects in this class were tedious, several group members just did not show up, and I ended up doing most of the work by myself. This class is a lot of self-study.
Sarah Eno PHYS105 Expecting a B- Anonymous 04/17/2018	she made the class unnecessarily hard. Got a B- even after putting in a lot of work
Steven Rolston PHYS105 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/11/2018	Professor Rolston is a fantastic professor. I wasn't sure what to expect from PHYS105, but I seriously learned a lot about contemporary climate issues. Professor Rolston did an amazing job teaching and explaining all the concepts. He grades very fairly and does everything he can do to facilitate your learning.
Jordan Goodman PHYS105 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/27/2013	Dr. Goodman is one of the best, if not the best professor at the University of Maryland. He is an outstanding lecturer who makes every lesson interesting and fun, while still incredibly informative. I learn a multitude of news things every week and always get a few laughs. He is also very approachable and the TA for my course was also great. The course overall is not a ton of work, although it is slightly challenging. If you put in the work it can definitely get you an A. It also fulfills GenEd requirements, and is an I-series course. This is the only class I have taken so far that I look forward to going to each week. I absolutely loved it. Please take this course, you will not regret it.
Jordan Goodman PHYS105 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2011	Awesome professor. Dr. Goodman knows a LOT about science, in particular climate science. He's a super enthusiastic professor who managed to keep me engaged at every lecture. He also had a few substitutes who were also very good, the man knows how to keep a class going. PHYS105 itself is not very difficult either. It's an interesting course and you learn a lot, but it's not too hard. There is a fair bit of work involved, mainly group projects, so keep that in mind. The exams are all short-answer based and they actually have very few equation-based problems. This isn't so much memorizing physics equations as it is understanding physical concepts as they relate to climate change and energy. I learned quite a bit from this course, it's an excellent choice for CORE non-lab science.
Steven Rolston PHYS105 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/29/2008	Very knowledgeable, presents material in very straightforward way. The class was absolutely amazing and I would recommend it to almost anyone who wants to know how to make a difference in this world-there was a lot of interesting stuff presented, and I'm really glad I took it.

Jordan Goodman
PHYS105

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/19/2023

Shows a lot of passion for physics in his lectures making it an interesting class. This is definitely a gen ed. I would recommend and you should take it with Professor Goodman.

Jordan Goodman
PHYS105

Expecting an A
anonymous1
12/13/2023

Goodman is a really nice guy, very enthusiastic about what he teaches. He's very down to earth and his lectures are equal part scary and about the world ending and equal part funny because he's sarcastic. Definitely recommend him, but don't necessarily recommend the class. The math is just algebra, but word problems can be confusing. Luckily exams are mostly concept questions from lecture, so definitely go and also take the random quizzes that pop on Elms every once in a while (he might forget to tell you about them). Good content in this class, worth learning --but the discussion feels like a separate class from the lectures. Be prepared to do a lot of conversion computations and basics physics: force, kinetic energy, etc

Jordan Goodman
PHYS105

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/29/2023

Dr. Goodman is an amazing person. His lectures are pretty interesting, and he's a nice guy. That being said, the work he gives in the discussion periods is pretty dull. 99% of it is unit conversions from the beginning of the semester to the very end. If you haven't taken a math class since the start of college, it might be a little difficult for the first month, but not for the whole semester. It gets old and makes the discussion work seem very pointless. But other than that, I have no complaints.

Jordan Goodman
PHYS105

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/01/2022

This course is unorganized. There were many quizzes that we didn't even know existed until the deadline passed. Assignments kept randomly popping up with due dates the next days. The group projects in this class were tedious, several group members just did not show up, and I ended up doing most of the work by myself. This class is a lot of self-study.

Sarah Eno
PHYS105

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
04/17/2018

she made the class unnecessarily hard. Got a B- even after putting in a lot of work

Steven Rolston
PHYS105

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/11/2018

Professor Rolston is a fantastic professor. I wasn't sure what to expect from PHYS105, but I seriously learned a lot about contemporary climate issues. Professor Rolston did an amazing job teaching and explaining all the concepts. He grades very fairly and does everything he can do to facilitate your learning.

Jordan Goodman
PHYS105

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/27/2013

Dr. Goodman is one of the best, if not the best professor at the University of Maryland. He is an outstanding lecturer who makes every lesson interesting and fun, while still incredibly informative. I learn a multitude of news things every week and always get a few laughs. He is also very approachable and the TA for my course was also great. The course overall is not a ton of work, although it is slightly challenging. If you put in the work it can definitely get you an A. It also fulfills GenEd requirements, and is an I-series course. This is the only class I have taken so far that I look forward to going to each week. I absolutely loved it. Please take this course, you will not regret it.

Jordan Goodman
PHYS105

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/22/2011

Awesome professor. Dr. Goodman knows a LOT about science, in particular climate science. He's a super enthusiastic professor who managed to keep me engaged at every lecture. He also had a few substitutes who were also very good, the man knows how to keep a class going. PHYS105 itself is not very difficult either. It's an interesting course and you learn a lot, but it's not too hard. There is a fair bit of work involved, mainly group projects, so keep that in mind. The exams are all short-answer based and they actually have very few equation-based problems. This isn't so much memorizing physics equations as it is understanding physical concepts as they relate to climate change and energy. I learned quite a bit from this course, it's an excellent choice for CORE non-lab science.

Steven Rolston
PHYS105

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/29/2008

Very knowledgeable, presents material in very straightforward way. The class was absolutely amazing and I would recommend it to almost anyone who wants to know how to make a difference in this world-there was a lot of interesting stuff presented, and I'm really glad I took it.

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