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Professor John Yelton Reviews

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Class Ratings

3OK Class
4Easy
3Kinda Interesting
3Kinda Useful

Professor Rating

4Good Prof

Prof: John Yelton / Fall 2019

Apr 18, 2022

Comments on the course

goes fast but isnt hard. study the practice exams !!

Course: PHY 2048Delivery: In personGrade: AWorkload: ModerateTextbook Use: No
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Class Ratings

4Good Class
1Very Hard
5Very Interesting
4Useful

Professor Rating

2Bad Prof

Prof: John Yelton / Spring 2023

Apr 8, 2023

Comments on the course

I get physics is a class every engineering major has to take, even if ur major has no relation to physics at all, which can be really annoying that u have to take this super hard class to not even utilize any of it. however, i would definitely take this course seriously regardless of ur major if u want to pass it. Exam questions are all conceptual. You need a solid concecptual understanding of the material, and that starts with going to lecture, reading the textbook, actually trying the hw, and practice practice practice! you need to put in time everyday for physics if u truly want to do go well on these exams. even though the workload is light (literally one hw assignment a week) that doesn’t mean to do physics once a week. it’s not that the concepts are difficult to learn, it actually ca...read more

Course Content

physics is useful for later engineering classes, especially for people who have to take statics, thermodynamics/hydrodynamics, dynamics, MOM, etc. later in their engineering degree.

Comments on the professor

the professors aren’t horrible like everyone is saying, but you should know that a good amount of learning is going to be from urself. office hours are helpful though.

Advice

seriously, start studying for the exams at least 2 weeks before go to lectures!!!! the exam is based heavily off of problems you do in lectures and from the homework physics is a grind but definitely do-able. study together!! do problems with other students helped me a lot surprisingly, so i’d recommend having a study group

Course: PHY 2048Delivery: In personGrade: B-Workload: LightTextbook Use: Yes
Attendance HeavyQuiz HeavyExam Heavy
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Class Ratings

1Awful Class
2Hard
3Kinda Interesting
3Kinda Useful

Professor Rating

2Bad Prof

Prof: John Yelton / Fall 2020

Feb 17, 2022

Comments on the course

Physics is, inherently, a complicated topic. An entire branch of math called calculus was designed to explain physics. Too much of lecture time is dedicated to the derivation of equations. For those who have genuine and great interest in physics or in majors where physics is ever-present, I'm sure this is helpful. For those who won't deal with physics on a day-to-day or for those who learn better with practice, the information truly seems irrelevant and the lecture thus seems like a waste of time. If you fall into the latter, you will not find this class enjoyable and you will be "teaching" yourself most of the material.

Course Content

Physics can be interesting, but past a certain point, say kinematics or rotational motion, the concepts truly become too abstract and it's hard to relate/analogize the material to become useful for memorization/practice.

Comments on the professor

Yelton, like many other professors, is here for academic research in his field. He is, by all means, very qualified in his field. However, not all researchers are excellent teachers for a broad audience. If you attend his office hours, he's excellent help, but for those who can't afford to attend office hours or feel like his type of instruction doesn't suit you, you will inevitably end up with StudyEdge (which sometimes offers too simple of an explanation or doesn't thoroughly cover every case in terms of material).

Advice

Practice practice practice. You will find a lot of similarity between the exams and practice exams as well as similarity in the homework questions and the quiz questions. Doing one problem of homework is not enough to understand what that problem is asking. Make your own classification of different types of problems and make sure you can classify what type of problem you're doing and what equations and relationships you will use before you tackle it.

Course: PHY 2048Delivery: OnlineGrade: BWorkload: Very HeavyTextbook Use: Optional
Quiz HeavyExam Heavy
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Class Ratings

2Bad Class
1Very Hard
1Very Boring
2Barely Useful

Professor Rating

2Bad Prof

Prof: John Yelton / Fall 2021

Jan 7, 2022

Comments on the course

Very confusing, study edge did not help much either.

Course: PHY 2048Delivery: HybridGrade: C+Workload: Very HeavyTextbook Use: Optional
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Class Ratings

3OK Class
2Hard
2Boring
3Kinda Useful

Prof: John Yelton / Fall 2021

Nov 8, 2021

Comments on the course

As someone with no physics background, it goes quite quickly, but that’s not necessarily the problem. They don’t really explain the examples they do in class well, so it’s hard to follow the concepts after you just immediately learned it. Yelton did make some prerecorded videos towards the end of the semester, which were very helpful. But it was just not a great class

Course: PHY 2048Delivery: HybridGrade: Not sure yetWorkload: HeavyTextbook Use: Optional
Quiz HeavyAssignment HeavyExam Heavy