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Theodore Jacobson
PHYS675 Expecting a B Ung0d 02/22/2024 |
Relativity, cosmology being an extremely difficult course, credit has to be given on how well he taught the course. I would recommend reading through an introductory relativity book over the summer to absorb the material better. |
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Theodore Jacobson
PHYS402 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/22/2024 |
Professor Jacobson has a very good approach to PHYS402. In my personal experience, the course was well taught at a perfect level of difficulty. The material we were taught was very relevant to modern research. The only thing that I was not a fan of was he skipped certain important topics like Bloch's theorem and scattering theory. |
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Theodore Jacobson
PHYS410 Expecting a B- Anonymous 07/09/2022 |
I didn't do well because I am. Professor Jacobson is one of the best professors I had. He answers students' questions through piazza almost 7/24, and his lecture is unique and clear. He also gives you notes written by him, basically a textbook. Probably you find it is hard to read, by it is very concise and include everything you need for this subject(just need a full insight to read). is class is very challenging, don't take the class with him if you just want an easy A. But if want to learn some real physics, definitely choose him. |
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Theodore Jacobson
PHYS410 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 06/10/2021 |
Jacobson gives way too much homework (expect to spend over 7 hours a week if you want to get above a 90), but I honestly thought he did a very good job of explaining the first 2/3rds of the content. Especially when we started going into Hamiltonian Mechanics, I struggled to follow what was going on in the homework and his supplied notes didn't help much. I did very poorly on the final even though I had the 3rd highest grade on the first exam. PHYS410 has a lot of great content by itself, and Jacobson tries to teach all of it and more, never skimping on homework along the way. |
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Theodore Jacobson
Expecting a B Anonymous 04/23/2013 |
This was a miserable course. The material is hard and Jacobson is terrible at teaching the material. He often writes equations or notes on the board without explaining anything. He did curve a lot on the first exam but the average was still a B after the curve (because everybody did so poorly). The TA who grades the homework grades very hard so it is hard to do well on the homework as a grade boost. Do not take this class if you want an A |
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Theodore Jacobson
PHYS411 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/17/2011 |
This was a really hard class. The material was very difficult. I'd like to say that this class was like a vector calculus boot camp. Problems commonly included partial differential equations, integrations in spherical/cylindrical coordinates, Legendre polynomials, Fourier analysis, and alot of other fancy stuff. The homework problems (from Griffiths) were long and tough, and Jacobson also created his own supplementary problems to add to the fun. They were actually sometimes easier than Griffiths'. Overall, Jacobson is a good lecturer. He presents the material quite well, and is very sharp when answering student qustions. If he can't properly address a student's question in class, he'll email the class later on explaining a concept. He is very nice and respectful of student concerns. Instead of just re-writing notes on the board, he actually interacts with student questions. He answers emails quickly. He does alot of interesting demos. His grading scheme is nice; grade is broken into 4 pieces: homework, midterm 1, midterm 2, and final exam (NOT cumulative). Your two best each count 35%, two worst are 15%. Very fair grading scheme. My only comment is that his final was really difficult, and I probably got like a 15% on it. Luckily, he seems to curve exams ... Overall, very fair professor. I may take PHYS410 this fall with him if I can fit it into my schedule. I'd recommend him. |
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Theodore Jacobson
Expecting an A umdgirl14 01/15/2011 |
Okay professor, honestly pretty boring. But if you need to take for a CORE take this class! Its an easy A with Jacobson, you can miss quite a few classes and still get an A. He curves A LOT and puts a lot of weight on homework. Go to the weekly homework sessions, they are one hour and the TA literally just gives you the answers and you will get an A. |
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Theodore Jacobson
Expecting a B+ Anon1 12/23/2010 |
Nice guy and interesting class, although it is fairly time consuming if you want to do well and aren't scientifically inclined. He curves, since the whole class averages in the D range, prior to the curve, but we had a few obvious physics majors in the class who blew the curve since he averages the class to a B. Grades are 3 exams and weekly homework - my advice is to do put in the time to do well early with the home work and first few exams because the material gets harder. Fairly easy to get a B in the class, but it's hard to get an A. |
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Theodore Jacobson
Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2010 |
He's a nice guy and very reasonable, but honestly not the best professor. He's goes into much greater depth than he tests you on, and ends up confusing you in the process. You probably wont get an A. |
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Theodore Jacobson
Expecting a B Anonymous 12/01/2010 |
really boring class does mainly demonstrations but you can fall asleep very easily curves tests |