Reviews of professor Vesal Dini

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Pay attention to the prelectures to get the facts and equations and take good notes. Then give effort for the problem sets and lectures, and you can get an A for less effort than in most lab classes and learn in a fun way. It's possible to get an A without learning much, but if you put in effort it's very good prep for MCAT-style problem solving.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I struggled to select tags so I'm sticking w “hilarious” bcs it's HILARIOUS how this man this physics is this deep. His pedagogy is unfit for a class like this, physics isnt abt intuition & IS SUPPOSED to be centered around eqtns - not avoid them. Quizzes too difficult given how lecture is spent discussing wrong answers w/o telling us whats right.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm aware that he's trying to do something pedagogically different, but in practice that means barely teaching in lecture (we get through 1-2 problems, spending 30+ mins discussing wrong answers without explicitly saying they're wrong). Then the problem sets are much more complex, and the quizzes are even worse, compared to how little he teaches.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's flexible and nice but the class is terrible. I literally do not know physics. There is so much work and none of it helps you learn. Flipped classroom is possible in sciences but not like this.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
we focus too much on intuition than actual physics. my grades are good but I still have no idea what is going on. The self-reflections, group quiz reflections, perusall readings of 50+ pages every week... Nice guy tho, never went to office hours but probs wld help you with homework. still, all that work for not learning anything in physics...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Whatever you do, AVOID THIS CLASS! The “lectures” are videos made for high school students and he expects us to automatically know how to apply the concepts in class. His class is like a guessing game of what is right or wrong, except he doesn't even tell us what the right answer is. The more I attend lecture, the less I understand physics.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is the most frustrating and unnecessary class I have ever taken. It is impossible to understand these abstract comments there is WAY too much emphasis on thought process, especially given the incredibly difficult quizzes that are 40% of our grade. AVOID IF YOU CAN

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Vesal is the NICEST professor and will do everything he can to help you succeed. He's always open to meeting with students and talking through problems. Yes, the quizzes are hard, but you can do so poorly and still get a good grade in the class because everything else is basically completion or participation.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you actually want to learn physics, don't take this class. He uses a flipped classroom. While I've found other professors can do it effectively, his method is entirely unhelpful and I barely learned physics. The quizzes are poorly written and the problem sets are often unhelpful.