Reviews of professor Clifford Barnes

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR GPA DON'T TAKE THIS GUY, SERIOUSLY. No matter what you do you can not possibly get a A through sheer hard work and effort. The way this guy grades will make you feel really bad about yourself. It's not that he's tough and strict, he just thinks all his students are incompetent instead of trying to teach them.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Barnes is an old school type of teacher. He went to MIT and West-Point so he expects a lot from you. He's not the best at explaining the material but if you read the book and pay attention to the lecture slides you'll be able to get it. Watch Pre-Lab videos. His grading for labs/quiz/test makes no sense. But overall good guy just not the best prof.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Barnes obviously knows what he's talking about but doesn't know how to explain that knowledge to other people.  I pretty much had to teach myself from the book until I decided to cut my losses and take physics somewhere else with someone who can actually teach it instead of just making fun of students for not knowing all the answers.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Old school, tough grader.  Very conscientious guy, so if you have an excuse you better have a good one.  Definitely a conservative Christian background but, if you disagree with him on on that kind of thing he is very respectful and will never play favorites with grades.  He is a very kind man and will help anyone who asks regardless of background.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a great teacher!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Drink 2 redbulls and a cup of coffee before each class. You will want to fall asleep. He is the definition of slow and if you ask any question expect no answer and a 10 minute answer.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly avoid him if you can. All of his lectures are based off the book and if you just read the book you will be fine. The labs are vague and if you don't listen to him when he's going over it in class, you might miss some important points that he wants in the lab report. He also changed the format of the lab report 1 day before it was due.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Barnes is a very boring teacher. His teaching style is to read off the slides and ask you questions. He doesn't do much class time practice, instead its learning concepts. Physics isn't supposed to be a reading class. I've learned more in my high school physics cla. He grades lab assigments very strictly for the most absurd things. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DONT TAKE A CLASS WITH THIS PROFESSOR. He is extremely disrespectful to his students and he uses humor to put his students down, in front of the whole class. It's impossible to ask him a question because he takes 20 minutes to explain it and it still never answers what I asked. He did not offer advice on lab reports, instead saying it was awful.