Christopher Gutierrez
Department of Physics
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3.7
Overall Rating
Based on 3 Users
Easiness 2.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 3.7 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.7 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 3.3 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Quarter: Spring 2024
Grade: A-
Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Dec. 9, 2024

Class was pretty good! Prof allows you to get some points back on the midterms by doing corrections, which you absolutely need to. The class kind of comes down to the final, and it was difficult. I ended with an 87 which was slightly curved to an A-. Overall, he is very engaging and remembers everyone's names (forcing you to participate by calling names). The homework was difficult but doable, and the midterms were straightforward. I took Chem 113A before this so the math for calculating quantum solutions actually made sense to me, and it was very helpful in understanding our results.

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Quarter: Spring 2024
Grade: B+
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Sept. 2, 2024

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

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Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: N/A
Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
March 23, 2024

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.

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Quarter: Spring 2024
Grade: A-
Dec. 9, 2024

Class was pretty good! Prof allows you to get some points back on the midterms by doing corrections, which you absolutely need to. The class kind of comes down to the final, and it was difficult. I ended with an 87 which was slightly curved to an A-. Overall, he is very engaging and remembers everyone's names (forcing you to participate by calling names). The homework was difficult but doable, and the midterms were straightforward. I took Chem 113A before this so the math for calculating quantum solutions actually made sense to me, and it was very helpful in understanding our results.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Spring 2024
Grade: B+
Sept. 2, 2024

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

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: N/A
March 23, 2024

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.

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3.7
Overall Rating
Based on 3 Users
Easiness 2.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 3.7 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.7 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 3.3 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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