Reviews of professor David Strom

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Strom is such a calming soft-spoken teacher. Lots of makeup opportunities to receive 100%, extra exam credit options, and the chance of taking midterms twice to average our scores. Final grade cutoffs were generous since the final was slightly below 70%. Had attendance quizzes but it was based on slides, and several attempts on those.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
nice guy but is overqualified to teach basic physics courses & doesn't relate to those w/ little physics background

good 4 advanced physics courses i hear (he specializes in astrophysics) 

In general, phys 201-203 at the UO is more so an asynchronous pearson course adapted 2 b in person & taught by whoever needs more grant funds in the department

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I don't even want to get into it with this class, Strom himself isn't that bad but doesn't seem to consider that a lot of us are not only, not experienced Physicists, but also many are literally Freshman taking our first Physics courses. Also will assign a very large workload either without knowing or without considering other classes and caring.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
David is a cool guy. I really enjoyed the in-class demonstrations. Unfortunately the tests are pretty hard, so you will need to study. The homework helps with the material.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Strom is a nice person & a decent guy, but his lectures are not geared towards lower-division at all. There's a very heavy workload, which doesn't even help with understanding the concepts, and not a whole lot of time to study on your own. He's not the best at explaining things or answering questions, either. Rambles a little bit.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nice guy, not a great prof. For an intro lab class, he introduces concepts and mathematics in lecture way too advanced, so you never really understand them, but the actual labs are infantile. It was also a 1 credit class, and I had to spend a minimum of 5 hours outside the allotted time to write the lab write-ups. Only saving grace was a good GE.