60% of class is spent on "nexttime problems" sometimes announced by email, but just as often not. If you have not tried the problems, seeing it being solved is useless. If you have solved them on your own, seeing them again in class is useless. Rest of class is spent on stories about his travels and his cat "Augustus". Pretty useless overall.

Handwriting is terrible. Talks (more like mumbles) to himself in class. Only up side is that majority of the items in the exams are homework problems. Down side is that there are 250+ problems and only 15 of 20 items in the exam will be from those.

The worst professor I've ever met! You practically never have to attend the lecture because those are useless. He just mumbles to himself or gives useless life hacks. Grading is very unfair and nontransparent. He didn't post a single grade even after the final grade is out. So, you have no idea what you get from the final exam.

The lectures are so disorganized going to them is pointless. The labs are boring but are worth 30% of your grade. The exams are easy enough (as long as he gives out sample midterms, which he doesn't do consistently) but the class is still tedious for non-science majors.

What was supposed to be on of the easier core requirements was extremely difficult. Lecture's are not helpful because he goes off topic constantly. He includes information on midterms that were neither discussed in class or in the textbook until later in the semester.

Don't go to lectures. Do all of your homework as early as possible, focus on labs. Tests are awful.

Takes attendance & asks questions for credit during class. Tends to go on long tangents during class and is not interesting at all. The tests are relatively easy, but are made harder by the fact that he doesn't lecture well at all and doesn't always explain things in a manner that makes it easy to understand. Do not recommend.

Worst professor ever. Lectures and resources all messed up. Don't know how to use ppt only relies on projector to show unclear black-white pictures. Explanation makes you more confused. 30% answers for practice exams are wrong even though they are past exams. Irresponsible and unaccessible. Taking his lecture is a waste of my life and time. AVOID!!

Please do not take his class. He gave us practice exam with lots of wrong answers. He just read the textbook in class. He use google in class because he can not answer question. TA is more helpful.

He can't teach whatsoever. I hate to write a bad review for a professor but he really messed with my education and gave me unnecessary stress. He is horrible at lecturing which makes the exams quite difficult. The lectures are the most pointless things. He goes on random tangents and when he occasionally teaches physics it isn't clear at all.

Absolutely horrible experience for an online summer session. Professor can be short and rude with students when they try and point out errors/confusions in the material. Answer keys are riddled with mistakes, absolutely no organization to the documents under NYU classes. Lectures are incredibly difficult to get through and seem to lack structure.

While I am inclined to forgive professors for mistake while we transition into online courses during the pandemic, this professors course is just not up to par. The lectures are fast and unfocused, there isnt sufficient time for questions, the handwriting is illegible and often I find I wouldve been better off enrolling in khan academy

Worst professor in a while. Seems very nice and sweet but has no teaching abilities and doesnt know what is happening. This course should be called khan academy..

I don't even know here to begin. Sure his exams are kinda similar to his practice exam, but HE DOES NOT TEACH! You have to learn most of the material by urself. I rather watch Youtube videos and Khan academy than listen to him ramble, which are absolutely better! Save yourself the time and GPA by trying not to take his course, or take off-track!

If u thought Orgo with Jones was worse, this just took the prize... He says that most students who take his course are pre-med, so he goes very fast to cover the topics for the MCAT. That is still no excuse to disregard the concepts, in which the MCAT tests heavy for passage-based! Just self-study for his course, cuz you will be definitely!

Unbelievable! Course is disorganized, lecture notes contain little to no info, and HW has absolutely no correlation to exams. He just rambles on and on about how to do problems, which he doesn't teach you how. 2/3 of class don't show up, likely due to the fact that they are all self-studying at this point... Please avoid his class.

If med school didnt require this course, I wouldve avoided it. Just self-study his course, he barely teaches, goes on useless tangents, and if u do take it for the MCAT, just use Uworld or third party tutoring services for the MCAT. At this point, u r paying tuition for a glorified undergrad name, why not fork over 200 to ace the MCAT. *Sigh*

Should have taken general physics freshman year with Adler, now its too late... *Sigh* Just self-study for 1-2 hrs per day, and u might do fine. Remember, everyones taking it for med school and MCAT, as long as u self study the concepts, ur golden.

Coming from a high GPA student, this is the single worst and hardest class I've ever taken. Professor is rude to students. Barely teaches, terrible explanations, so expect to rely on self-teaching entirely. We go through an average of 1.3 chapters per day, an insane pace. Lab is disorganized. Exams more challenging than practice. 0/10

Absolutely terrible course. The professor doesn't really teach the concepts, and his notes are often illegible and skips steps. He oftentimes does not explain how he derives his work. His practice and actual exams are riddled with errors. He is rude to students during lectures or through emails. 2/3's of the class doesn't come to lecture.

He is by far the WORST professor I have had in my life. His lectures are impossible to follow and almost incoherent. Even if you try to self-study and look at the answer keys to the practice exams, his handwriting is illegible. He skips steps and does not explain how he got the answer. Your best bet is khan academy and praying for a good curve.

This class is a phat L

Everyday I wake up and wish Professor Adler was still with us so he could save us from this nightmare of a class.

WORST

Wow i've never taken a worse class/had a worse professor. He's literally made someone cry over zoom and does not even make up for his rudeness by being a good physics teacher. Constantly writing incorrect practice problems, practice exams, and actual exam questions.

Disappointment to NYU, physics department is just awful. Does not care about the students at all, does not know how to teach. NYU needs to do better, I expected more for such an expensive school

Genuinely the worst teacher I've ever had. He has made students cry multiple times in lecture and enforces, quite frankly, draconian measures to prevent cheating while the class is administered online. All this is in addition to his incoherent teaching, illegible handwriting, and incorrect questions/solutions on both practice and actual exams.

I have never disliked a professor this much before. Not only does he fail to answer his own exam questions properly, but his lectures are useless for the course. Even with a strong background in calculus, his failure to meet even basic standards of teaching has left me to self teach myself with no guidance. If you can avoid him, I would recommend.

This class is a nightmare.

Apparently his/physics department's idea of trying to curb the "cheating" (seeing that students studied hard and got good midterm grades) was to give questions that have no correct answer choices in that even the closet numerical answer is like off by 50. The physics department and him need to proactively do something and not appease their own ego!

If you care about your grade DO NOT take this class, lectures are extremely disorganized, you have to study EVERYTHING on your own. if you can take it with another prof or off-track do it. I don't know what holy knowledge the ppl who give him a rating above 2 have, but avoid at all costs, go take it at another college or something

Worst class I've ever taken. After taking the third midterm exam for this class, he released the scores with EVERYONE'S names and IP address linked to it. All 337 students in the class saw what each person got and where they took their exam. This was an invasion of privacy and completely unprofessional. The average for this exam was a 55% too.

I wouldn't take this class again if I was paid to do so. I've been forced to teach myself physics for the entire semester and even now I can't say that I know anything. I have personally corrected his answer keys to exams and problem sets and it's quite frankly embarrassing that the University allows him to continue to teach.

the worst class I have taken in my life. Although it was not the hardest conceptually, the stress he has put us through is insane. He leaked all of our IP addresses, coordinates of where we took exams, & our first and last names next to our exam scores. This man is a joke, and the university should be ashamed that 335 of us had to endure all this.

1) 3+ major mistakes on every practice exam, real exam, and answer key 2) tried to fail whole class for doing "too well" on test2 w/ no proof of cheating 3) leaked everyone's private info (ip address, location, name) to the entire class after test3 4) it took threatening to sue to get one, insincere apology from Burton/dep NYU should be ashamed.

Don't take his class. Impossible to follow along to, extremely unstructured lectures, students are left guessing on what they're supposed to study, what they're being graded on, what textbooks they need, what assignments they are supposed to do, you will learn NOTHING from this class.

Take this core with someone else. Extremely unstructured lectures, prof assumes students already have a solid foundation of physics. HWs due at the end of the semester, but you never know which textbook to use for the assignment. Labs were difficult imo. Lectures are draining and unhelpful. I only passed bc of my TA, who was a lenient grader.

He's an awful teacher and an awful person. I really don't understand why he is still back teaching after releasing student's info and putting countless students through so much. The bottom line is he should not be a professor because he simply cannot teach. NYU's standards for hiring professors could not be lower than this person.

I'm so serious when I say don't take this class. This is the worst class I've ever taken in my four years at NYU. Disorganized, no tools inside or outside of class to help students, prof doesn't respond to emails, and the expensive required textbook is pretty much useless. Lectures are a waste of time, so everyone ended up teaching themselves.