I've retaken this course multiple times and its easily one of the hardest phys courses I've come across. The HW questions are just insanely hard to conceptually understand, which demotivates you and then you're hit with the hardest exam/test questions. The department should really look at a better approach for teaching the methods, everthing feels so out of order. The material is really interesting once you understand it but the methods to get there are sooooo boring. The material ends up coming back a lot in other classes, so do not skimp out on knowing your shit.

I have Tulin now, he isn't too bad. His lectures are actually good, but if you're late on something you're screwed. The other profs I've had have always been pretty bad. The lectures consist of reading of the eclass notes or textbooks.

ACTUALLY DO THE HW/PRACTICE/QUIZZES. I cannot stress this enough. You will come across insanely hard questions off the bat with no way of solving it, don't let it bother you and go straight to the solution. Attack the question by using course materials. Verify it after with wtv you want. This will help you conceptually understand the material as you go. Try to remember what is a derivative of what (for example, Force is the distance derivative of E field) and know your calc.

Essentially a redo of PHYS1801 in first year, but with the lab weighting removed. The lab (PHYS2211) is basically the lab portion of the course, but offered as a separate corequisite for no good reason, other than trying to weed out students. Very theory-heavy and requires a strong foundation to succeed in this course.

Professor has unrealistically high expectations of students and expects them to attend every lecture. He drops hints for upcoming quizzes occasionally, but marking is atrociously random in the sense that you may have a huge chunk of marks docked off for missing some part of the solution.

Treat this like a 4 credit course (the prof does so anyways, using tutorials as another lecture hour). Content builds off of previously taught concepts, so try to keep on top of this course's content. Good luck o7

Essentially a redo of PHYS1801 in first year, but with the lab weighting removed. The lab (PHYS2211) is basically the lab portion of the course, but offered as a separate corequisite for no good reason, other than trying to weed out students. Very theory-heavy and requires a strong foundation to succeed in this course.

Professor has unrealistically high expectations of students and expects them to attend every lecture. He drops hints for upcoming quizzes occasionally, but marking is atrociously random in the sense that you may have a huge chunk of marks docked off for missing some part of the solution.

Treat this like a 4 credit course (the prof does so anyways, using tutorials as another lecture hour). Content builds off of previously taught concepts, so try to keep on top of this course's content. Good luck o7