The instructor is nice. He is willing to help students and answer questions. He is a great person, and I would love to take his course again.
The problem is the course content. I would rather die than doing any AMO experiments in my life again. I completely lost interest in AMO. The elective of optics is not offered, so all theory is new to me. I have to learn the theory and the experiments while writing all the reports and pre-labs. All of this takes all my time. All the experiments except the last two take so long, and when I left the labs, it was always mid-night. At least I can say confidently that there is no homeless people on campus in midnight because I was really physically on campus. The experiment s were hard to conduct, and sometimes the TA did the labs for us becuase we spent hours on it and couldn't succeed. For example, in the cavity lab, all the alignments were done by the TA because all our attempts failed miserably. After the labs, we spend so much time writnig reports and answer questions, but the TA grade harshly for some ridiculous reason. After constantly grinding and failing, the hopelessness made me lost hope of life and I started to weep lonely. Another thing to mention is that there is so much information in lecture, and every week after the lecture, my brain is cooked. I don't understand anything from lecture, and I have to self-study. Basically, I self-studied all the theory part, spending days and nights reading lecture notes myself. The instructor did his best, but we have so much material to cover in so little time. This should be a multi-quarter course. I now have a PTSD for lab course. It is completely different from my experience in an actual lab.

He's okay. Not particularly great, but not bad either. The homework problems are mostly algebra (despite the fact that TAs were okay with calculation software) and were quite uninteresting. The final exam and the second midterm had some fun problems. The content of the course is extremely exciting, though Prof. Hamilton doesn't have the infectious enthusiasm of many other QM professors. Griffith's QM, the textbook, is as terrible, but Shankar's book and Youtube will help you a lot.

I think Hamilton is a really good professor overall. The grading scheme consisted of homework, two midterms, and a final exam. The homework was pretty straightforward overall. The midterms I thought were extremely fair. If I had to give a tip to do well on the midterms I would say do the practice midterms he gives out and go to the review session. The questions on the midterms/final were not computationally intensive but rather conceptually difficult, so you really have to make sure you understand the ideas presented in this course. The final exam was exactly like the midterms just longer. The midterms/final are open book but the midterms are designed to take almost the whole time of the class so it doesn't really help for those. Overall I really liked Hamilton for quantum, and I don't think he deserves his rating on bruin walk. The only thing that was a negative was that he was pretty monotone so his lectures weren't super engaging overall. Also he goes super slow for the first two weeks for review of 115A but the pace increases quite a bit after that so keep that in mind if you take him.

This class suuuuuuuucks. Reports are a ton of work and are graded really harshly. The syllabus literally says "you are competing against your classmates for the curve." Give yourself at least 2 solid days to write each report, follow the lab manual closely, and get this class over with.