Reviews of professor Michael Bachmann

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You'll probably make an A, but you won't learn anything. I would try my best to avoid this professor if you can. He's clearly a brilliant man, but has a really hard time at teaching concepts of kinematics to undergraduate students. There is only a midterm and a final; you get to use a double-sided hand written sheet.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
The lectures are basically useless. You don't have to go to any of his classes. There are no tests. There is only a midterm and a final which are pretty easy. You get a cheat sheet for the final and midterm. He expects everyone to understand the concepts using derivations rather than being able to solve problems recalling equations.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Lol if you know a bit of physics and calculus don't fret take this class for an easy A. Never went to a single lecture ended up with a high A. He knows his content but he doesn't know how to convey it. My biggest worry throughout this course is before the test you don't know what you don't know till the test. Have fun <3

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Bachmann posts all of his lectures online. They are hard to understand as he likes to go off topic and doesn't use normal physics notation. He'll teach you how to get there but never work out a sample problem but rather, he'd say "just use this to get you there." He barely assigns homework or practice problems which doesn't help either.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Unless you already know everything about physics, avoid. He clearly knows the content and is passionate about it but is not good at teaching, especially an introductory course. I imagine he would be much better suited to teaching a higher-level course. Very few grades in the course overall. I came in with no physics experience and was 100% lost

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very straight forward, honest, and caring professor. He always shows up with a good attitude and loved when students ask questions. He does go on tangents sometimes which can be a little annoying but he always reels it back in.  He expects a lot, so I would not recommend for an intro course, but he's an awesome upper level lecturer.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Learned nothing but was able to get a good grade. Will not be prepared for physics 2 at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He's horrendous. I feel totally unprepared for the next level of physics. You can tell he's just a pretentious researcher who's teaching the class because he needs to. And to top it all off, there's only a midterm and a final for exams. He uses non-American notation for stuff too so you won't even know what you don't know.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is so awful. We only have a midterm and a final which are each 25% of our grade. The other 50% comes from homework and lab. He will only meet with people during office hours or right before class, so it sucks if that doesn't work for you. His lectures make no sense, and he won't use a single number for examples in class.