Great professor. Explanations are super clear and the exams are very similar to the review problems he provides. The topics themselves can be difficult if you haven't had much exposure to physics before, but Bondarenko makes it manageable. Definitely recommend.

To be fair, I dislike physics and I don’t think anyone can really teach physics but here is my review.

Sure, the guy is organized and does his best but he does very few examples in class. It’s mostly derivations that will not be tested. You’ve gotta develop problem solving skills on your own. Kinda monotone as a lecturer - not engaging.

One thing I really disliked about this class were his rubrics. The partial credit is awful. He gives two points (out of 10) just for having the correct answer and then you’ll get additional points off for the reason why you don’t have the correct answer. No chaining. Tests are really long too. Tend to be 8 questions for a 50 minute midterm - crazy.

So he is by far the easiest prof for 1A in the department.
That being said he still bores the crap out of me. I think I never saw the man smile once. It's funny, for a dude with such a crazy online personality (rap videos) he's boring in person. Classes are organized, audio bruincasted, and all of the homework is on Kudu which is much better than Mastering Physics. The midterms and finals are incredibly fair and entirely based on the reviews he gives beforehand. The way we did it this quarter was set up a groupchat for students in both lectures so we knew when he did in-class participation activities (we were in the later lecture); that way, we didn't have to go to class since they were so boring. All of this material is pretty much self-study.

hard class but good professor, just make sure to go to class and stuff, I didn't and because of that I guess I didn't understand some of the basics, but overall yeah he's a pretty good professor for this class

if you need to take this class, take it with anton if possible! this man is a robot, but like one of those super cool robots that you'd beg your parents to get you for christmas. let's do this in list form, in true robot-style:
1. his lectures are super clear. he explains concepts and goes through proofs in a way that is easily understandable, and on top of that, his speech is very articulate. (though this does mean that lectures can get a little dry -- he goes through the proofs almost too thoroughly.)
2. he is the most organized person i've ever had the pleasure of meeting -- he would make marie kondo proud. anton posts all of the lecture slides and complete handwritten notes from class on ccle, and everything on there is clearly labelled and easy to find. his lectures are also bruincasted as audio files (no video, unfortunately. we can't have everything in life). basically, you don't need to worry about skipping lecture as long as you have some way of finding out when he assigns an in-class kudu activity.
3. he hosts his own midterm and final review sessions before every exam. these are super helpful, as the actual exam questions were pretty similar to the review session problems. he posts these problems a week or so before the session and goes over them in detail (the notes from these are also posted onto ccle afterwards). if you understand the review session problems well, you should be fine on the exams. he also allows a 3x5 notecard (front & back) for both midterms and a 8.5x11 paper (front & back) for the final.
4. he uses kudu (which was ~$50 i think oof) for homework as well as in-class participation. for the homework, the questions can get a bit annoying (heads up: they change numbers between different people on short answer questions!), but if you have chegg (or have a friend who has it haha) the questions are all on there. you don't need to be in class to do the in-class questions as long as you know when to get on kudu, and these were graded on completion, not accuracy.
5. there were 2 lectures when i took this class spirng 2019, and he used the same exams between lectures for both midterms and the final. just ~throwing that out there~ but the exams were really not bad either way because of the notecard/cheatsheet he allows for all exams so you're chillin lol.
6. if you do end up taking this class: this man has some i n t e r e s t i n g social media content out there. look up homie soul on youtube (the scooty pop & elostelle videos), and his facebook also has some real gems on there. thank me later.

funny tidbit: i crashed the afternoon lecture with my friend one day after going to my lecture that morning, and i was hearing my morning lecture again, nearly verbatim. i'm telling you, my dudes: r o b o t.

anyway, just take the class. you won't regret it.

The lectures were very clear, but a bit monotonous. He makes sure to write down every step in his derivations, and when I say every step, I mean every step. Thus, lecture is pretty slow paced and you can get bored pretty easily. That being said, you won’t have to worry about being lost in his proofs which is good. If you’re someone able to focus dry lectures, then you’ll learn a lot. Also, his review sessions are really useful for the midterms and final so I would definitely recommend attending those. If you understand the solutions to the problems done in these reviews, you’ll find the exams to be fair. Overall, I think this is a nice and solid introduction to classical mechanics.

Lectures were pretty dry, since he focused a lot on derivations for relatively simple concepts (which may be useful if you haven't taken a physics class before). The class was really slow for the first two weeks, and the material for the last unit was rushed. However, Anton's lectures are very organized (and he posts all of his slides and notes online), and I reckon the class wasn't as difficult as with some of the other physics professors.

Anton Bondarenko is a legend. Take Physics 1A with him. He is very clear and provides a lot of material for students to work with. He uploads handwritten lecture notes. Leads excellent review sessions before examinations that strongly resemble the exam itself. The medians in his class are around ~80%. This means you basically have to lock in a raw score of 90+ to have a shot at an A-. I personally did not have much intuition for physics and relied heavily on mathematics to derive most of the answers. I would blindly compute integrals and take derivatives to get the answer based on the mathematical relationships between the equations. If you have a good grasp of the calculus, you will find it that you don't really have to get the "physics" to do well in Bondarenko's class. But, if you want to develop the intuition for physics, paying attention in lecture, following his demos and asking questions in office hours will definitely help.

Bondarenko's lectures are really well planned and organized, but they can be a bit slow and boring. He is very clear though, and scans the lecture notes so you can use them to study (he doesn't use the blackboard, he does his lectures on the camera thingy). The second midterm was somewhat hard (more because of time constraints than the material itself), but the other exams were fair.
Overall, good class, I don't have much to complain about.