Bondarenko is a great professor. He is very clear and systematic with the way he teaches. His tests are fair, but like all physics classes your grade is based on the curve. He also posts all his lecture notes online as well as bruincasts, which is a plus.

GREAT professor!! TAKE!!! His lectures are really well organized and he posts notes on CCLE. He is a good lecturer and explains everything really clear. His exams are manageable. He give review sessions for all exams, and the questions in the review sessions are really similar to the real exams. I would take his physics classes at all expenses.

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lothario tonez unfortunately spoke with a deadpan monotone for all 8 of the lectures I ended up attending. i got dicked in this class but i cant really complain considering my attendance record. pro tip: if u skip class, refresh kudu at around the 35-40 minute mark into the lecture

Bondarenko was a fantastic professor for physics. In past physics classes, I have often found it difficult to understand specific topics and the relationships between topics, however Bondarenko does a tremendous job of explaining this by doing many derivations of important formula so you understand where they came from and how they relate. In this class participation does count, however he didn't actually check participation more than a few times throughout the quarter. His midterms and final were very fair if you understood the homework well. The second midterm in particular was a time crunch despite the fair material so many people lost points because of this. To prepare for tests in this class just be sure to solve the extra homework problems using only variables and not numbers (this is how the tests are). Definitely would take a class with Bondarenko again if I got the chance

Very organized! The class was very average.

Bondarenko isn't terrible, but he isn't super great either. There are two midterms and one final exam. He required us to buy Kudu which is where we did weekly homework and also live participation questions that required you to go to class or have a friend in the class. Kudu is not a great platform but it allowed for easy points since homework questions could be looked up online. TA went over how to do Kudu problems during discussions, but my specific TA overcomplicated it.

His tests are formatted weird. He asks theoretical questions, using strange wording. No numbers, you basically derive equations solving for whatever the question asks. Once you see how his tests are written and you figure out what he wants, it isn't too bad. He uploads practice tests and does review sessions. He also uploads all his lecture notes as he handwrites them during lecture with a projector.

The class is definitely doable. But overall, I felt like I didn't learn much physics in his class. He spends a lot of lecture deriving equations and not necessarily explaining the physics behind it that well. He draws bizarre diagrams and uses weird notation that made it too convoluted for me to follow.

Physics is a subject that can be directly applied to the world, and demonstrations definitely would have solidified understanding of the material. Bondarenko did not do any demos, rarely ever showed real-life examples in class. His class just felt very abstract to me when physics should have very concrete connections to the world.

The most organized and intelligible professor I've ever had. Take him if you can.

His lectures were extremely clear and you could copy his notes almost exactly for your own notes, but this was a problem in and of itself. He went so slow and so deliberately in lecture through the notes and practice problems that when we were set out on our own, for homework or exams, it seemed much harder than doing it in lecture and often I did not know where to start. Still, he was a very clear professor in lecture, even if his lectures were not super exciting. His exams are alright, not terrible but definitely not easy. Definitely know how to do the practice exam problems very well as this usually applied directly to the exam.

Bondarenko is an amazing professor. His lectures are easy to follow with hand written notes that he does on the screen along side some slides. Physics is a subject I would say is hard to make a lectures that are easy to follow. Bondarenko does this excellently. No textbook was needed for us everything is done online through Kudu, and questions are assigned each week to help you practice. His lectures along side those problems help you really understand the material. He also has in lecture participation questions that he goes over to help you understand examples and that are free points for just doing. His tests are hard only because of the fact that they’re entirely algebraic and conceptual. Any “math” you do is all in terms of variables. Many didn’t like that but I think it really forces you to grasp the material better. His study guides he gives you for those though by themselves prepare you for the tests. If you study just the 4-5 study questions he gives and really understand what steps to use for those questions, the tests will be easyish.

Anton was a mixed professor. His lectures were extremely proof based, and much of the material he covered in class was valuable in enriching your personal understanding, but not so valuable in actually helping to solve the problems. In order to be truly successful, you had to grind out the midterm review questions he posted. They were essentially identical to the actual midterms/final. Seriously, if you want to succeed in this class, mastering the review questions is the key.
I had 2 big problems with the structure of the class, however. First, he did not give enough time on the exams. There were 10 parts worth 10 points each on each midterm, and we only had 50 minutes to complete it. I disliked this because if I made a small mistake (which everyone does) I did not have time to go back and fix it. Other than that, the exams were straightforward. Time management was the greatest challenge.
For grading, he was a savage, using a Gaussian bell curve with the mean set to a B. This means only 14% of the class ended with either an A/A+. This class has high potential to hurt GPA if you are aiming for that 4.0.
Lastly, be aware that many people entering this course will have strong physics backgrounds from high school. He did a poll the first day, and around 20% of the class had already taken calculus based physics in HS. If you are new to physics you will be at a disadvantage compared to your peers and will likely need to invest a hefty amount of time into mastering this class. Good luck!