Electrodynamics I
ELECTRODYNAMICS I covers potential theory, Maxwell's equations, and wave propagation in electric and magnetic fields.
Summary
Historical reviews of Irena Knezevic, Nader Behdad, Nathan Strachen: The course is compact with heavy homework and difficult quizzes. Students report needing to attend lectures and complete homework to succeed, with some noting buggy quiz systems or high difficulty.
Grade history
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Prerequisites
Course map(PHYSICS 202, 208, or 248) andE C E 219, or member of Engineering Guest Students
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Professors
Fall 2026No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
William Nick Hitchon received mixed reviews, with one student finding him fun but ineffective for learning, while another criticized noisy lecture videos and skipped steps. These historical accounts suggest inconsistent instructional quality and potential issues with online materials.
ERIC TERVO is recorded teaching in Fall 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
IRENA KNEZEVIC is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Fall 2020, Spring 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JOHN BOOSKE is recorded teaching in Spring 2008. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MIKHAIL KATS is recorded teaching in Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
NADER BEHDAD is recorded teaching in Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
NATHAN STRACHEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
WILLIAM N. HITCHON is recorded teaching in Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews praise instructors like Booske, Behdad, Knezevic, Kats, Tervo, and Strachen for being helpful, passionate, and inspiring. Students value their approachability and investment in student understanding.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.41 GPA, 64.8% A/AB (n=105 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.17 GPA, 49.4% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.50 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=169 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Irena Knezevic, Nader Behdad, Nathan Strachen: The course is compact with heavy homework and difficult quizzes. Students report needing to attend lectures and complete homework to succeed, with some noting buggy quiz systems or high difficulty.
Historical reviews of Mikhail Kats, Nathan Strachen, William Nick Hitchon: Students report technical issues like noisy or buggy videos and quizzes. Some find quizzes tangential to class material and lectures limited to basic principles, while others note learning more from TAs or finding the class easy.
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Grades
Fall 2026 · Projected
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Approximate 80% prediction interval
About this estimate
The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 3 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.14 GPA average error.
Grades over time
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Where this course fits relative to
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About this comparison
1241 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
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LLM outputs across runs
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Model & dataset provenance
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