If you want to live, do not take this class.

I chose to take PHY 112 over summer instead of having to take Fobar for another semester. He is always unprepared, mumbles to himself so you can't understand him, and is constantly making errors. I would avoid his class if possible!

Pretty much 2% teaching and 98% rambling about magnets.

Absolutely horrendous at explaining things during lecture. Not super flexible if you forget your clicker or changing the HW he always has due the day before the test. He was super calm about having a 50% average for the first test. Super HW heavy and you more or less have to teach your self.

terrible at explaining things, probably a very intelligent guy, but can't explain his thoughts

Worst professor I've ever had by far. Doesn't know what he's talking about most of the time if you're even able to hear over his mumbling. Gives quizzes the day after tests, avoid at all costs.

This professor merely regurgitates material from the book, rambles incessantly, and assigns homework that is vastly harder than in class assignments. He is no better than trying to teach oneself the material.

Seems like a cool guy, but is definitely an awful teacher... fails to teach the fundamentals and assigns homework much harder or completely different to anything we have been learning. One of the worst teachers for Physics, avoid at all costs.

Hell spend 20 minutes on the board doing integrals just to get nowhere and leave the class more confused than they were when they walked in. Lecturers bear no relevance to homework. Gives incomplete or wrong equations or leaves them half solved.

by far the worst professor I have had during my time at NAU. Completely dysfunctional lecture; avoid at all cost.

Nice guy, not a good professor though. Spends too much time in class working through formulas, most often leaving us with multiple things that look the same. He lets us use a 8.5x11 paper on every exam but the exam is not created by him, just copied and pasted questions from other uni's. Expect to be more confused than the beginning of class.

This class is one of those classes where he knows that people don't care about his lectures. He's a pretty nice guy, but he assigns homework that is way harder than what is on a test or quiz. His tests are 20 M/C questions (20 points) and 2 long answer math questions (20 points). Don't be surprised when the class avg. is a 50% for all tests...

Brad is a funny guy, that's where his good qualities stop... He spends the entire class doing useless integrals that do absolutely nothing to teach anyone. They confuse and do nothing to help with the homework or tests. He does curve a lot so passing isn't a huge concern. Go to SI and TA sessions, watch Kahn academy.

Dr. Fobar is not the best at explaining physics. He is smart and passionate but he is unable to explain the concepts in easy to understand terms. He also did not curve the exams despite a majority of people failing. This reflects on his teaching style.

He's the only professor who teaches PHY111 but he is the worst professor I've had. He goes through his lectures without any thoughtful explanation on why or how he's solving equations, problems, etc. He also only gives 2 minutes per question on the exams. He also gives homework on exam days.

Professor Fobar is a very nice person, but his teaching style is just not favorable. Currently writing this in tears after I just took the first midterm and went down from a 99% to a 65%. Honestly felt like I was not prepared for the exam at all. He strays from the topic during lecture and barley gives you any time to do the exit questions/quizzes.

Dr. Fobar is a funny guy, but the dude is an awful teacher, you won't learn anything from him, he puts in equations that you've never seen before, doesn't explain it, then just continues on. An A+ in the lab will be the one of the only ways for students to pass this class in the future. Even if you were good at physics in HS, this isn't even close.

If I could put a rating of 0 I would. I sit in this class and I genuinely question if going to college was even worth it. The way he teaches, especially in the morning. Nobody else I talked to has a single clue whats going on, and even if everyone fails the midterm or final, he doesnt curve. I dont know how this is fair to students at all.

So let me get this straight, NAU charges 50k for every student, but somehow cant recognize that every physics professor here has tons of horrible reviews. I dont know why there isnt a complete flip of professors. Theres this guy, and the next teacher is a 2 star, then a 1.4 for a higher lecture (112), I hate college.

Brad Fobar seems like a nice man and he means well. However, he is not a good professor and I did not learn anything from his class. There is a lot of homework that is assigned and it is only worth 5% of your grade. He also gives out written problems for attendance once a week, which typically results in the class running 10-20 minutes over.

Really bad. Awful. His lectures are incoherent, he constantly goes on side tangents, and the majority of the class is taught through Pearson. After a semester of open note exams, he drops a bomb a week before the final saying we can only have a sheet of paper for the final. Avoid if you can. Go somewhere else if you can't.

Awful. Lectures didn't help at all, they were so disorganized and nothing he said made sense. His attendance dwindled from 300 to 25, and he told us “I would give you extra credit, but it would hurt the other people's feelings”. Avoid at all costs. Take physics at CCC or online instead. This guy is unhelpful and disrespectful of students time.

Easily the worst professor I've had, his lectures are lazy, being that they consist of pages straight out of the textbook he scribbles on well going off on random tangents that don't even relate to the material whatsoever. He doesn't explain concepts well and most of the time he pulls equations from nowhere with little explanation.

Would come out of his lectures even more confused than I was than when I initially came in. Lectures are useless and do more damage than help. I stopped going to this guy's lectures after 4 weeks and realized I could teach myself without the meaningless tangents, and my grade went up. You are better off skipping class and asking ChatGPT for help.

This guys wouldn't let us use our notes on his final exam because he would get sensory overload from everyone flipping through the pages. After a semester of open note exams, yeah I'm pissed. Get over it.

He spent 15 minutes talking about his son's lizard instead of teaching. I genuinely cannot believe this guy still has his job after everything that I see on here. Everyone hit the nail on the head. Avoid like the plague.

Lectures often went 10-15 min over. He's told us all semester we could use our previous notes on the final. A week before he drops a bomb that were only allowed one page because he'll get sensory overload. He cannot even make a coherent thought. Lectures are useless, I'm against AI but even chat gpt was a better teacher than him.

Pearson should get his salary. When everyone fails the exams he blames us all for using AI to do our homework instead of re evaluating his teaching strategies. This man needs an ego correction asap.

Changed his grading criteria bc his online summer class all cheated & he found out (what a shocker an online class cheated) Hes taking it out on everybody else. Goes off on tangents and doesnt properly explain content. I learned more staring a wall then attending his lectures. Get ready for snide remarks about attendance if your in his 8am class

Easily the worst professor I've had. Overall just confusing and vague when lecturing. His lectures almost always went 10-15 mins over. Usually assumed we already knew everything he was teaching, as if it wasn't an entry leveled class. Never curves the exams even though the class average is 60% and blames us for his lack of ability to teach.

The worst professor I have had. He is pretty funny in class but he is not a good teacher. Does not curve test even though everyone failed it. Offered a little extra credit but it was so small that doing all of it didn't change my grade more than 0.3%, and the way he framed the EC made it seem like we were getting a lot more than we did.

This professor does not teach at all. He is constantly using phrases such as "it's so obvious" or "everyone knows this", instead of actually explaining the material. Unfortunately, he is the only option for this class, but it will be an absolute nightmare.

Made mistakes while showing examples and would skip steps assuming you already had an understanding of the topics. He also made questions more complicated for no reason, to the point where the upper level physics majors I was tutored by didn't even understand what he was trying to ask. Do practice exams over and over in order to pass.