Reviews of professor Philipp Roser

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Roser is awesome!! He's super fun, and presents the material in simple analogies. He goes over lots of examples in class, so if you actually engage with the material you won't be caught off guard on the homework/exams. This class is difficult, but if you show up to the lectures and do the homework, that effort will be rewarded.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please no matter what you do. Do not take this teacher. He is a very nice guy and willing to help and offer explanations his teaching style just is not effective at all. He never uses powerpoints and only uses worksheets that hardly help you at all in terms of understanding his very difficult and confusing exam questions. Very uneffective teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Philipp was a solid professor. Helpful office hours. Lectures and homework were relevant to the exams. (Interesting that other people had different experiences.) Exams are closed-book but he provides a sheet with some equations on it. He now has recorded lectures on Canvas from quarantine. No MasteringPhysics.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Has good lectures. He has many physical demos to help illustrate what he's teaching. He's great at answering questions and is pretty funny. You can tell he cares about the students. There are no required textbook readings and you can get through the course without ever using it as long as you attend lecture.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Roser is a very nice person but a horrible professor. There is 0 structure to his lectures and we barely did any practice problems in his class. His exams all had questions on them that were irrelevant to the current material and just added difficulty. He does replace your lowest exam grade with your homework grade but this doesn't help much.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Philipp is one of the best professors I've had at Western so far. His lectures are so engaging - he has a demo to show his students at almost every meeting! Exams aren't too difficult, but are definitely challenging; however, Philipp gives a lot of partial credit for good physics. I hope to take more of his classes in the future!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Roser was one of the sweetest professors I've ever had. He is a great person. That being said, he has no structure to his lectures whatsoever. However, he is pretty good at clearly communicating material that will be on exams and grading criteria. Go ahead and take him if you have some sort of foundation in physics, if not, be ready!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Phillip is a gem. He is so funny and he really listens to students comprehension of the material! We told him we wanted more examples in class and he changed the structure of class to reflect that. He makes you work for it though, so dont be fooled. Hes super fun and does cool demos!