Reviews of professor Peter Halverson

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He has you sign up for an online website called Expert TA and has you do problems he assigned from there. My general problem with the Expert Ta questions is that they are more frustrating rather than helpful. Sometimes, reading the book is way more helpful than his lecture. He's a very nice and knowledgeable person but not an effective instructor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He assigns a lot of book work. For example, ch 9 will be split into two assignments, 9a and 9b. Furthermore, there would be online homework. Online hw for any science class means hell, this is a double-edged sword, however. If you get 90% out of 100%, that still counts as 100% for the onlinehw. Quizes are from textbook examples, test is on hw.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst professor I ever had. It was my first semester of college and I was class of 2020. So, my senior year was ruined. I had to figure out all this college stuff on my own. Professor Peter Halverson, wasted my time and money. All he cared about was the quizzes/tests. Even if you do your best on big projects or homework, it won't matter.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Halverson is very passionate about what he teaches which really makes the class enjoyable. Yes physics is very hard and you have to do a lot of work but all of his quizzes are based off the hw and he provides the answers for all of it. He loves when you go to office hours and offers extra credit for it sometimes.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's pretty bad at explaining, although he's very kind and gives extra credit. If you are not a visual learner who understands better when being explained instead of reading, don't take his class. I managed to get an A in his class because I studied and read the book, not from his lectures. His tests are also based on textbook questions.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Soooooooo many homework.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very hands-off instructional style. Lectures give a bare-minimum of information with little in the way of interactive walkthrough, usually just skimming over each step. You're left to grind through the similarly minimalistic textbook on your own. Nice guy, but seems a touch unorganized and could really stand to put more effort into lectures.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
taken in spring 2019. quizzes/tests are directly from the book. the professor's lecture's don't cover the book hw that well. would not recommend

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
So much homework! He is very passionate about astronomy, and very caring and kind. He wants us to learn, but the way he lecture is not so fun. He is a devoted professor, I can tell he has his standard of doing his work, and he takes pride in his work. He is a great and kind professor but just has too much homework.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
We'd get over 150 problems of hw. The quiz would be based on the hw and he would ask 1-2 questions, the test would be 4-6 questions. It's very confusing to know what to study for the exam. Do not take!