Jamie's a cool guy, but he really tries to cram way too much information and too many derivations as possible into his dense, often incomprehensible lectures. His homeworks would easily take hours without help from our amazing TA Trevor, especially since the problems assume comfort with high-level mathematics far beyond what basically all students are reasonably prepared for. According to other TAs, the content covered was at a pace and comprehension level on par with upper-division physics courses.

Even so, the class is generously curved with roughly 50-50 As and Bs. Even with the brutalizing amount of content and difficult tests, the grading certainly won't murder you. Take at your own risk!

For me, taking this class made me think that any other class besides physics is easy. I feel like you have to do more critical thinking in this class than in any undergraduate class (except 1BH). Also, Hect is a pretty good book, but definitely ask Jamie which parts you should read/skip. Even though the you don't know what his homework questions are asking 2 days before the deadline and sometimes even the TA doesn't know what the question is asking and how to get the answer, you gotta love Jamie and his witty jokes in retrospect. Definitely take this class since the grading is lenient.

Jamie tries. But his lectures are very disorganized, his handwriting is messy, and (at least online) he's just not engaging. Maybe it's my fault for not being able to focus too well through a screen, but I found it virtually impossible to pay attention to more than ten minutes of him talking. Our textbook (Hecht) was similarly disorganized (even our TA agreed that it's really hard to tell which ideas, derivations, and formulas in it are actually important). Jamie went pretty deeply into some topics that (according to our TA) aren't necessarily standard (such as a deep dive into using matrices to understand optics) and (again, according to our TA) many of the ideas and derivations he used were not standard (ie, even our TA found them hard to understand and it was difficult to look it up in any source outside of Jamie). It's frustrating that you have to double check every equation on these topics because 1) you won't find it on the Internet without searching for an hour, 2) Jamie's handwriting is awful and he does often make algebraic errors, and 3) sometimes he'll type up notes but again, typos happen. Homework problems are generally a combination of textbook problems (which are generally pretty easy, and sometimes have answers in the back) and problems that Jamie himself wrote (which are often hard to understand and even the TA wasn't sure what was being asked; sure, you can ask, but Jamie doesn't always answer questions too clearly and sometimes people walk away more confused than they were originally, but even if he was 100% clear, this means looking at the homework very early to allow time for correspondence). Pray that you'll have an amazing TA like ours, Dima Vaido, who was super helpful, solved homework with us during recorded office hours, shared a BUNCH of resources to supplement the lectures, and was overall very funny and pleasant and approachable.

Difficult class. Homework is time consuming but helpful. Lectures often have mistakes that have to be cleared up in office hours. Exams felt familiar but were still really hard. Super helpful TA carried this class for me. Expect more of the same difficulty if you make is to 1CH.

If you've taken 1AH and 1BH already, might as well finish strong with 1CH as well. You already know how the honors series works; it feels like hell but you'll learn a lot and get a decent grade anyways.

As much as I like Jamie as a person, he is an absolutely terrible lecturer. His lectures are confusing and downright boring. Most of the time, he'll just go on and on about something that doesn't make much sense because he doesn't really explain anything. I stopped attending lecture altogether about halfway through the quarter because it just wasn't helping.
Homeworks are extremely hard and the only reason I was able to do some of the problems was because of our TA, Trevor (this man was by far the best part of this class and really is a godsend). The book for this class also helped a little with the material but overall I wasn't too impressed with it.
Jamie's tests are graded extremely leniently (you could get a decent grade by just attempting the problems) and the class itself is curved very nicely.

Jamie's lectures are boring as hell. Barely watchable on 2x speed this COVID quarter.
Homework is hard as hell. Pray your TA is good; Trevor Schoepner carried all of us through the class.

Read the book, try the problems, go to TA office hours. Lecture is kinda optional.

Curves and tests are relatively lenient; if you study an A is easily achievable.

Jamie is a nice guy and does genuinely care about the topic and you tho.

Professor Rosenzweig is a nice person, but inadequate teacher. His lecture notes are really hard to follow, and in his explanations he skips over steps and expects you to know what he is talking about. The content in this class is very tough, but thankfully the grading was very lenient, especially during this online quarter. What made this class bearable was our TA, Trevor. He was awesome at explaining these really complicated topics, and is the main reason I got anything out of the quarter.

Physics 1CH with Jamie is definitely a class to be wary of taking. The class, for the spring 2020 quarter, had only one midterm as an assessment, and 7 homeworks. The homeworks would have been very difficult if not for our TA, Trevor, and the midterm was quite difficult but graded very leniently. Jamie is a nice person but a poor lecturer, and a majority of the class never showed up to lecture because he would go on and on about some topic without explaining it clearly or concisely and overwhelming us in math. The class was curved heavily, though, which was nice.