I love this professor! Gelmini is a very thorough, exciting, and funny orator. Unfortunately, at times it can be a bit overwhelming. As long as you keep up with the reading and the homework, her lectures will be worthwhile. She also has these awesome experiments to observe in class even if you don't understand what's going on. Personally, Physics is not my subject, but Gelmini is definitely the professor you want.

My TA called physics 10, "physics for poets," I've been calling it "physics for the comatose." The class is ridiculously easy, if you passed sophomore year algebra in high school you should be fine. All you have to do is plug variables into equations and she gives you the equations. I was really dreading taking physics 10 because I am not a science-y person, but prof. gelmini delivers the material in easy little peices and she's just adorable with her upbeat attitude and her quirky accent. I did have a problem paying attention in class when there was crazy physics demo equipment all over the place, but that's just my short attention span.

Physics is not my subject, and though I did all of the homework, I had trouble initially with this class. Some concepts were hard for me, but she had good presentations, funny comments, and the TAs were good (Take Louis Levenson, he's very good and willing to explain things if you don't understand them), but so was the professor. Sometimes the wording on the midterm and finals was completely puzzling and bogus, but even through the difficulty, I got a B in the class. So she's a good teacher, and if you have a background in physics(I didn't), you'll do wonderfully in this class.

I was so afraid of this class, but it turned out to be alright. Dr. Gelmini is a funny teacher, and she has organized lectures. But sometimes she did confuse all of us, but the TA really helped in explaining the concepts. The book readings did help alot, and do your homework becuase it can help your grade. Her midterms and final were somewhat hard, because at times it was hard to understand what she was asking. Attend lectures so you don't miss her cool presentations.

Highly recommended. She definitely knows what shes talking about. Her demonstrations in class are great. Shes very entertaining at times and she makes sure that you understand before she moves on. Her lectures follow the book so if you can't understand a concept from the way she teaches it, theres is always the book. There are a lot of trick questions on the test so exams are a bit hard. But the good thing is she curves the grade, so as long as everyone else does bad, then you'll be fine. And homework counts as much as a midterm. Its true that questions on her exams are a bit hard to understand as to what she is asking. but if you understand the concepts, you should be fine. Since the class is curved, if you dont understand a problem, other students probably don't understand it either.

her lectures are good, her experiments were great they helped alot, but they were unprepared sometimes. she is really nice. her exams are hella hard though. they are tricky and long, 1/2 the class didnt finish her exams on time.

Gelmini is one of those VERY VERY smart professors that is soemtimes so smart that she gets caught up in a thought and totally loses her students. She will always ask, "Are you with me?," but doesn't give students enough time to figure out if they are actually with her before she moves on. She is very funny thoguh. Her lectures are thouroughly entertaining. I really did learn a lot from her class, even though most of it was from what I read in the book and what I observed with her experiments. The discussion section is pointless to go to unless there is a midterm coming up. Overall, the class itself is not too hard.

The review about the "grammatical mistakes" seemed a little bitter to me. Granted, there were grammatical errors on the exam, any reasonably competent person could figure out what she was saying. I could see what Prof. Gelmini intended with her lectures. The book gives a very conceptual idea of physics...she took those concepts and showed us the mathematics behind them. Although, at times, the lectures were a little TOO mathematical and not as conceptual, some people in the class enjoy that style and that should be respected. I heard a lot of people complain about the fact she didn't solve problems, but that's what discussion was for. She was also VERY interested in student learning...she even took the time to help me another student with a physics question when we caught her on her lunch break in north campus.