Reviews of professor Linda Reichl

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm taking this class online because of covid. If you took AP physics and remember that, this class should work as a nice refresher. However, she simply reads from the textbook. Don't expect her to work any problems. Don't expect her to read the chat. DON'T TAKE IF YOU DIDNT TAKE AP PHYSICS IN HIGH SCHOOL OR IF ITS ONLINE.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She seems like a wonderful person but just simply doesn't teach. She makes an effort to explain but all she really does is read the textbook in class and suddenly expects her students to solve challenging questions. If you are taking this class, prepare to make a subscription on chegg for a full semester because that's all you got.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Reichl is a great person but I did not like her teaching style. She mostly just read off PowerPoints and did not do too many example problems. If you have no previous physics knowledge then this class will be very hard. She also is not very tech-savvy so having the class fully online this semester made it even more difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great professor and very clear lecture notes. Stressed a lot but made it through.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Reichl is a sweet lady, but she is past her years of teaching. Linda read incoherent lecture notes word for word that she had written down, and many times got herself confused. This is the worst class I have taken at UT, and avoid her at all costs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures were useless but participation is required. In my opinion, you would be better off skipping the lectures and self-teaching yourself from the posted notes. Exams are very rushed with not much time given for each problem. Homework was ~20 questions a week and only loosely based on the lecture notes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very kind and extremely intelligent - too qualified to be teaching freshman physics honestly. I ended up mostly having to teach myself from the notes and Quest assignments, but her office hours are helpful too.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Avoid taking Reichl. She is a nice professor and there is no doubt that she is very knowledgeable, but when it comes to teaching its a different story. She condenses the textbook into "notes" which only consist of formulas and example problems and does not teach the class. Tests are online but she also gives you little time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take this class. Prof Reichl has many admirable qualities such as her genius intellect but teaching is not one of them. She reads off the textbook and good luck if you can process what she says. Everything is unclear, there is no syllabus, and assignments are much different than the textbook she reads off of. Again, genius person, bad Prof.