Naoz really cares about her students, but she is a lousy lecturer. She spends a lot of time going over confusing proofs that are really not helpful or relevant. She made it seem like her class was going to be very difficult, but it wasn't, so don't worry!

Her first midterm was super easy, and the second midterm and final were of medium difficulty. Some problems were right off her example problems, so memorize those! She gives too much extra credit on the tests, and the averages are high.

Weekly masteringphysics. She gives optional problem sets with solutions that have some mistakes, but are very similar to the tests so you should do them.

There is a participation grade for answering polls in class (like online polls, with your phone, not a clicker). You can miss a couple though and not lose points.

The Professor is not that bad as the previous reviews said. She really cares about students. I took physics 1B with her. Even though she usually spend a lot of time on proving the theorem and those proof are, for most of time, really hard to follow and to understand, her class is organized and straightforward. Honestly, she is not an excellent lecturer, but comparing to other professors I think she is still above average. I would really like to take her class for physics 1C.

Lectures are a complete waste of time as she spends the two hours doing proofs on the board without attempting to relate the mathematics to anything tangible. However, there are participation questions so you pretty much have to sit through the lectures. The tests are significantly easier compared to the material covered in lectures and discussions, so you could probably get by by self-studying if you're mathematically oriented.

Despite getting an A in this class, I feel very unprepared for future classes involving this subject matter. Being an electrical engineering major, I really needed to understand the material. However, Naoz mostly did derivations of physics theory which left me, along with the majority of the class, extremely confused. They were completely unnecessary and did little to help teach us. Because of all the time spent on derivations, she fell behind the other classes in terms of material covered. We only covered SHM, electric field, electric force, electric potential, and capacitance. The other classes covered that as well as resistors and thermodynamics to name a few. These are things we need to know. The tests were pretty easy though. They were basically what the problem sets she posted were. Honestly, you could probably do well by just reading the book and doing the homework. Going to lecture will not help.