Not a great class, not a great professor, it felt like the professor was trying to teach us things in math we didn't know by relating it to physics things we didn't know... Yeah, who knew it wasn't gonna work...

The lectures were just solving problems and never had a formal mathematical explanation of anything, he made me more confused about linear algebra than I was before taking that class.

I felt like I didn't really learn anything except for the last part about solving PDEs and the Fourier stuff, but that ended up being rushed because we wasted time doing taylor series and linear transformations which were already covered.

The exams were really easy but any small mistake was fatal and the grading was really rough

This is the first class you take as the bridge between lower division and upper division physics. Some things can be a bit confusing, since you're essentially being presented the methods to solve problems you haven't even encountered yet (but will later). That said, it was one of my favorite classes this quarter. Dr. Gutierrez did a great job explaining everything. We had a few homework assignments, most of which included a mini programming project in Python (for things like solving the wave equation, calculating FFT, etc.) but you don't need CS experience for it. There were two midterms, not particularly difficult but we were allowed corrections on it to earn 20% back. The final was five questions.