Do not take his class for Honors Physics II. Single worst decision of my life. Taught only theory and so in depth that you couldn't understand it and it had no place in a 100 level physics course. Average on the first test was a 42%. Blamed us honors students for being lazy. When you ask for help he confuses you more. Homework was really difficult.

The homework is so hard; it takes hours to complete and is nothing like the lectures.

Chronis ruined the physics labs.

Chronis writes the lab reports that students must complete alongside their physics course, and between his horrible English skills (he is very unclear) and his extremely difficult to answer lab questions (such as asking things we hadn't gone over in class), understanding the report material is near impossible, unless you really know physics.

I had the displeasure of taking this man for both Physics 1 and 2. I passed both classes without too many problems, however, I learned nothing. He lectures about theory when the test are problem based. You will learn little to no physics if you take him. There is a huge scale on the test, but this is given for any physics prof. you take.

I have not had Dr. Chronis as an actual lecturer, but he is the professor who runs the physics labs. This semester in physics lab has been horrendous. The final for this class was extremely hard and had nothing to do with the material learned. Right after the final was due, he made it worth more than what the syllabus said, which ruined grades.

Just terrible.

I had the class with him and Strong. The lectures, homework, and exams were all nothing alike. The homework was way harder than the lectures, and the lectures were way harder than the homework. They are one of the only options, so work hard. Do not expect a high grade.

Terrible. Man only listens to himself.

Honestly one of the worst classes Ive taken in my time so far at UAH. The professor is rude to students and the lectures are dumb because they dont help you with the homework or tests at all. You may learn a few things in the lecture but doesnt help with problems given. The final was terrible as no study guide and no scale when average was 48%

Very unprofessional. Lacking in empathy and understanding and overall care for students' education. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Professor is terrible. Doesnt care about the students or grades one bit. Terrible job of presenting course material to the students and blamed the students for not teaching themselves. Homework is extremely difficult and almost every problem you gotta look online to understand how to work them. Extremely stressful class. No chance of getting an A.

Do not take Physics here.

Throughout the semester, your assignments are posted on an extremely unintuitive program, and each assignment takes 4-5 hours with no outside help or instruction. Lectures are completely unrelated to the assignments, and the final exam is completely unrelated to the assignments. Asking questions would result in a short, snarky, and vague reply.

Sorry to future students who have to take him. Unless you are Albert Einstein you have no change of getting an A. Lectures cover easy problems while the excessive homework features extremely difficult problems that Dr. Strong often cannot immediately solve herself. Professor blames students for entire class performing poorly.

The homework was more difficult than the material covered in lectures. I had to search YouTube videos because so many of the concepts were not covered in the lectures. Very time-consuming homework. He told us in class that he was lazy, proved through the textbook generated homework and exams with no partial credit.

With the online format, this class expects you to be a supercomputer that can devote 20+ hours a week of dedication just to keep a B in the class. The lectures and homework were completely different from one another which made the class extremely difficult to learn anything. Do not take this class if you don't have to.

Incredibly unprofessional (and not in the "good, fun professor" way). Blames you for having questions instead of answering them or helping you. 20-30 hours per week of homework. Puts in no effort to help students.

He is by far the worst physics teacher on the earth. He does not teach at all and you have to teach yourself everything. Do not waste your time trying to reach out to him for help. The grading is really hard. Good luck if you have to take him.

Lab manuals poorly explain experiment procedures, forcing you to attend make-up days to complete most lab reports. Manuals are also poorly written, containing major grammatical errors and poor wording for proofs. The lab does not have enough materials for every group. Content in manuals do not sync with Strong's class. Do not take physics at UAH.

He didn't care about the students. He didn't teach at all. One of the worst professor at UAH physics. No help for homework. Lectures don't help to do a single problem in exam. He didn't know to solve problems. Other teacher in parallel class can't solve those too. I bought Chegg to do homework. No response to emails/hard to reach. Don't take him.

He doesn't even teach the lab, the underpaid TA does all of the work. For the love of God don't take him for PH 111. Completely unreachable. Unhelpful. Rude. The worst teacher I've ever had, and he didn't even show up to the lab meetings.

He is the most unreachable professor and is extremely rude. He will actually yell at you if you have trouble with a concept. His labs are actually impossible and dont make any sense. I have been spending 18+ hours a week on the labs and making F's on them for a ONE CREDIT CLASS. Do not take him if you don't have to.

Very difficult to understand from lectures, while his love for physics is prevalent, that won't help you when you take the tests so get ready to teach yourself a lot of the stuff or spend the money to get chegg to teach you.

Dr. chronic was one of the worst experiences in my career as a student thus far. He is a very terrible teacher. Lectures vaguely discuss physics, entirely different from the actual final exam. No response to emails. This is literally the worst physics class ever. Avoid at all costs.

Terrible class. He assumes we know more than we do for PH 111 class. He skipped many parts in the textbook, and he didn't know how to teach an undergraduate course. Avoid at all costsone of the worst classes I had taken at uah.

This man cannot teach PH111. From what I have seen, he has somehow managed to attain the empathy and pedagogical nature of a sea sponge. It is like he intentionally hopes to confuse his students with both his practice problems and his teaching style. The worst part is that he knows what he's talking about but explains it like a 7-year-old.

This class is terrible, and this person can't teach PH 111. He threatens that he will fail 80-90% of the course. He is the worst person that I encountered in my academic experience. UAH physics should consider giving PH 111 to another professor, and I do not recommend taking him. He mistreated students and doesn't have any kindness and patience

I think the lab manual is one of the most confusing things I have ever read. All of them are so long and convoluted. Instructions are not clear, and material needed is not covered in class until weeks later. It also takes forever to grade, but that has more to do with your TA. At least you don't need to buy a textbook.

Worst professor I've ever taken. Most of the class did fine on his tests because they were formatted exactly like the homework, but he always changed the final to be theoretical questions, and most of us failed. He blamed us for failing the test and accused us of cheating when in reality, he just failed as a professor. This occurs every year too.

Awful. Lab manuals are poorly written. Instructions are not clear. I spend 24+ hour per week on labs. Grading was very harsh. No study guide for final exam. Don't take this class if you don't have to.

He generally should find another job, teaching isn't for him sadly.

Chronis may be the Greek god of physics.? lol. But he can't teach for beans. Poor teaching skills. The whole class was failing and he acts likes it's our fault. He'll make you feel dumb for asking a question. You have think twice before take his class also if you care your GPA dont take him!!

Terrible teacher. If I could go back in time and stop anything from happening that has ever happened, the first thing on my list would be to prevent this man from becoming a teacher. I do not recommend anyone not even my worse enemy to take any course taught by him, you will end up wanting to disappear from earth and this is not an exaggeration.

I have no idea what the person ahead of me is talking about. Literally the worst professor I have ever taken. He is a horrible teacher. I went to most classes and learned little to nothing. Lectures, homework, exams, and final exam are all barely related. He blamed us for failing the tests. Take it elsewhere or with someone else.

UAH physics dep should hire someone to reorganize labs and rewrite the manuals. All labs are awful, poorly written manuals and very confusing, and the lab does not have enough materials for every group. Didn't receive graded reports ontime. Grading is not consistent. Spent 24+ hours a week on the labs and making F's on them for ONE credit course.

Although Chronis does not teach the PH 114, he does write the manuals, which are confusing to read and usually off pace with what we learn in the lectures. Also, the class requires 8-10 hours of work a week, which is way too much. This, along with the difficulty of the lab final, made the lab harder than the lecture for me, which is already hard.

I never struggled in a class like this before. He does not listen to the concerns of students. Who lets him teach? HORRIBLE professor, who doesn't know how to teach physics intro class. His exams are impossible. Lectures and exams did NOT correlate! I would not suggest him to the worst enemy.

I regret taking this class with Chronis. I am not sure how he still teaches when more than half the class fails every year. He is very rude with feedback and when you ask for advice, its the equivalent of a shrug. Very aggressive guy. Drop him to save yourself stress and a headache. Pick a professor that clearly cares about your learning and grade.

Awful. Horrific. A nightmare. This is honestly the worst class that I have ever taken in my life, and this man is literally the worst professor I have ever come into contact with. You will be teaching everything to yourself. I DO NOT RECOMMEND TAKING THIS TEACHER. Save physics for another semester with another teacher.

This is probably the worst class I have taken at UAH. He is not good at lecturing. The concepts barely get across and the only way to understand what is going on is to look up the answers to the homework online. The final was nothing like the rest of the class and the average score for the final in the honors class was 65%.

Chronis is not a good teacher. His lectures are hard to follow, the final exam is very different from the homework and tests he gives, he berates students that ask questions, and there is the whole dust to dawn debacle from this past semester. Overall I would recommend everyone avoid taking his class.

By far one of the worst professors at UAH. He can't teach Physics. Very rude. Lectures and Lab manuals are very confusing-very disorganized canvas. Anything that has Chronis attached to it you should avoid. PLEASE do NOT take a course with this professor. He makes everything more difficult to understand and is not a suitable teacher for any course.

UAH has a serious problem in Physics and Math departments when it comes to teachers. Chronis is a terrible teacher. I had him for physics 1 and 2 because he was the only option. He is useless as a teacher; most don't bother attending class. He couldn't teach 1st graders their ABC's. If at all possible, try and fit Dr. Strong into your schedule.

Chronis is the worst I have ever taken. Unfortunately, he is the only professor who teaches this course, so it was impossible to avoid him. Final was nothing like the homework and did not correlate with his lectures. He is very unprofessional. He thinks very highly of himself and speaks down to students. So, if you take PH 111H, good luck.

This is a very poorly structured course. The labs themselves are very confusing and the instruction in the lab manuals is not clear. Everything is ridiculously hard, and not even the TA completely understands the material. Save yourself the headache; take this class elsewhere.

With the ego of a supervillain and a tendency to monologue regarding "the wonders of the Greek language", Chronis' lectures are almost entirely devoid of qualitative physics work. Need to know what something is? Here's five different terms for the same thing, probably with an additional Greek lesson thrown in, with only vague conceptual "examples".

I cannot describe how many people regret taking classes with Chronis. This man is the worst teacher I've ever had in my life. He simply cannot teach physics. Regularly berates and insults students to the point that no one asks questions. If you don't want your GPA to get destroyed, DO NOT take this class. would not suggest him to worst enemy.

I created an account on here for the sole purpose of giving this man the worst rating possible if that tells you anything

The worst professor I have ever met at UAH. He does not care if you learn the material & is rude during class. If you suck at physics and don't like feeling like an idiot when you ask for help, take literally anyone else in the physics department.

I had him for both Physics 1 and Physics 2. Definitely the worst professor I have had at UAH. The majority of the class is graded based on the homework and tests from the book questions which are entirely different from his lecturing. Then, the final is based on questions he creates, which are different from both.

I have never felt compelled to write such a strongly negative review. I had Chronis for PH 111 and PH 112 and both classes brought my entire GPA down. He is rude, aggressive, and inaccessible outside of class. No response to emails. Avoid him at all costs; all these negative reviews do not lie. Quite literally the worst professor I ever had.

Lab manuals are the worst scientific document I have ever read in all four years I have taken labs at UAH. Phrasing of the instructions is condescending, and those have copious typos, including some that make answering graded questions impossible. TA was not approachable when we had questions. If we asked something, all he said was "i don't know".

Terrible professor. Run. Homework, exams, lectures and the final are all structured differently. In class he often berates students. If you need more information, ask any UAH student, and 99% of them will agree he is terrible.

Absolutely terrible! Very ashamed that UAH allows this man to teach and terrorize so many students every year. I don't know how he can look at himself in the mirror and claim he is a "teacher."

Avoid taking at all costs. Run. DO NOT TAKE HIM. Ask any UAH student. It's TERRIBLE

A horrific, complete, utter nightmare. My mental health tanked after taking Chronis, because he would constantly berate and belittle students. Run as far and as fast as you can away from him.

The worst professor I've ever had. He ruined my life in a single semester, and he is sure to ruin yours if you take him. The examples he gives in class barely scratch the surface of the ludicrous problems he presents on the tests. I view physics with renewed hatred because of him. Don't take him.

I encourage anyone whos degree requires physics credit to take this class ELSEWHERE. I made a mistake in not doing this. Lectures hard to follow, very math heavy, not at all conceptual. If you didnt take AP Phys. in HS, you will be lost. He is rude and condescending and berates his students, especially in the honors section. Take class elsewhere!!!

The worst teacher I've ever had in my entire life. Lectures are absurdly fast and don't follow the textbook. He will berate students for not knowing the material he doesn't teach. Lab manuals are obscenely long and even have coding mistakes. If you don't buy Chegg, homework takes 4+ hours per assignment. You will have to teach yourself EVERYTHING.

Pretty much useless lectures, and a lot of homework. The saving grace is his tests are easy, so it is not very difficult to do good in the class.

If you don't understand a topic the first time he teaches it, he tells you that you are stupid and you need to switch majors. He obviously only cares about the people who knew physics beforehand. PLEASE take physics at a community college and transfer the credit, it is not worth your sanity to take his physics classes.

If you ever attend UAH and have to take physics with Chronis, I have but one suggestion for you. Think seriously about literally any other profession or life goals. He will ruin it. I have never felt more strongly about a professor in any way good or bad. I would rather walk over broken glass than take is class again. *Must speak Greek*

From day 1, you are expected to have background knowledge of physics. If you don't, then he will tell you gladly that you don't belong in his Physics 1 class. To anyone you ask about him, know that one review about him being a great guy was a complete lie. EVERYONE you ask on UAH's campus says Chronis is horrible at teaching and rude. AVOID HIM PLS

Being a driven student all throughout my academic career, I've never struggled like I have in Chronis's PH111. The lectures are very difficult to follow, he expects you to have a physics background, and essentially tells you to question your self-worth in a mirror when you get a supposedly "easy" question wrong. Wouldn't recommend at all.

Dr. Chronis is fairly unprofessional and does not value the student body. He teaches by only drawing diagrams and says there are no dumb questions when in reality is rude and makes the students feel dumb whenever a student has a question. Avoid taking Chronis if possible. Be ready to teach everything to yourself.

Chronis was not a helpful professor. While I studied hard for this class Chronis went above and beyond to make sure material that was not in class was on exams (especially the final). I worked with other classmates and grad students as well and even they said they were confused by his wording and his problems and that "how would you know this"

This has now been my 3rd year of physics, and all I can say is that I struggled, in everything. Struggled to follow in class, homework was not explained methods in class, obviously I studied, hours sometimes in a row to understand. Lectures proved not to be helpful, neither was the professor. He is an alright guy outside of academics, but hell here

I took Physics I and II when I first started at UAH. Easily one of the worst classroom experiences ever. I to this day continue to talk about how awful this class was. And I made an A. Mocks students during lectures for asking "stupid" questions. Makes online tests way harder than they should be. (This was during COVID). Avoid if possible.

He was the worst professor I have ever had. He does not care about you, your grades, or if you learn.

He's passionate about the subject, but he isn't great at conveying the material without succumbing to aggressive "I care about you as future engineers, why are you like this" bouts of emotion when people do poorly. His final was 42 questions for 150 minutes, and you could not go back on your questions. Questions are poorly worded on lab & practice.

Avoid at all costs

Does not want people to take notes in his lectures then complains about people not recalling material. Provides notes in an unreadable format and expects his students to fix it themselves despite it being a tech issue on his end. Wastes time ranting about students wasting their own time in his class. Gives exam credit out like candy, which is scary

Chronis does not know how to teach. He does not care how well you are doing in the class. I had to teach myself solely. He was the worst professor I ever had in my life. DO NOT TAKE CHRONIS.

Exams are online and no partial credit, it's either 100% right or 100% wrong.

there are no pros. this guy just wants to watch students suffer.

I spent 15+ hours in labs per week and received 30/50. This guy gave free points to his favors. Data provided in the labs have tons of errors. The marked answers for quizzes are wrong. Lab manuals are the worst scientific documents I have ever seen. TA does not provide any help. UAH needs to hire someone to do the physics labs.

As long as you do well on the tests and homeworks, you can afford to fail the final (which you will). His homeworks take hours, his tests are based completely on the homework, and his final is based completely on his lectures. Nothing can prepare you for his 40 question final. That being said, he is generally kind in office hours and outside class.

He doesn't handle the lab, TA does everything. But his lab manuals are horribly written with SO many typos, and the questions and instructions are confusing and unclear. The labs are usually two weeks ahead of the lectures and cover material we haven't learned yet. He was not willing to answer questions. It also took forever to get any grades back.

This professor is by far the worst I have ever had. I took this course as a transfer credit for another school. I received an A in the lecture, however the lab was different. I'm a junior and still believe this is the worst course I have ever taken. Take this lab somewhere else if possible because he will fail you.

AVOID IF POSSIBLE! I have never had a class as awful as this one. He makes the material very difficult to understand, especially if you have a weak background in physics. Take it online somewhere else if you can. The labs he writes are also ridiculous. He is almost too smart to teach it, he cannot simplify it to teach at the level of the class.

I urge you if you are reading this before taking his class to avoid him at all costs. He is the worst teacher you will ever encounter in your life and I promise you that. His 1 credit hour labs take 10+ hours a week and he assumes you know how to program and have strong prerequisite knowledge of physics before taking physics...

good luck reading his horrible laid out lab manuals, you'll spend 8 plus hours for a 1 credit hour on a lab :)

Do not take this teacher. I failed the class and am now in jeopardy of lossing my scholarship.

You work on labs that you are expected to know the knowledge for even though it was taught weeks ahead of ph111. TA does everything and "teaches" you. It is a one credit hour class that feels like at least a 2-3 credit hour class.

The PH 101 labs are terrible. Chronis and his TA didn't help. TA also struggled with the lab questions and didn't grade lab reports on time, and there was no feedback. Now, we are at the end of the semester. I have not received any lab report grades since the second lab report. Why can't someone look into these problems?

Absolutely awful. Requires multiple purchases not available through bookstore. Uses TA's to do his job. TA's have no idea how to help.

He's too smart that info isn't digestible for new students in physics. class doesn't feel structured at all. Do good on ALL HW!! Buy Chegg for this class and use ChatGPT if you have to (you will). Keep track of all hw answers and solutions bc test are exactly like hw. final is based on his lectures so..cheat. all tests are NOT in person!!

Lab was not fun at all, but you can get through it. First lab is the longest and it's the weed out. He literally wrote his own lab manual, so yeah it's hard. sometimes TA's did not know how to help, but that also means they would cut you some slack. try your hardest and ask for help, that's all you can do.

This man is the Greek god of physics and not in a good way. He is the bane of existence of any students that have to go through him. Absolutely atrocious and I thank God I no longer have to take him.

After reading the polarizing reviews and having no choice but to take this man, I was intrigued; however, the rumors are true. Chronis is a nightmare for students who care about GPA. He uses the excuse of "I don't care about your GPA if you learn" even though that's a ploy for him to be lazy with grading. Either find someone else or study a LOT.

Get ready for a tough ride. You cannot avoid Chronis for physics lab, so the only way you survive is if you get a good TA and lab group. The reports suck and take soooo much time. I only got through because of the kindness of upperclassmen. Good luck.

If you did not take physics in high school you will be 100% lost. Those that succeeded in the class lived, breathed, and ate physics. He blamed the students for a large lack of understanding and be prepared to for an additional $30-$40 cost for other materials. Be warned that unless you know physics inside and out you will struggle or fail

Lab was impossible to understand, the TA was unhelpful and refused to grade reports on time. During the lab the TA would spend time nitpicking students rather than answering questions to those who need it. Highly inaccessible and no clear grading criteria which makes lab reports take 6-8 extra hours to try and cover all information required.

The lab for Physics 1 was too difficult to understand. The online book was poorly set up, and sometimes the links and information were just plain wrong. The TA was not helpful at all, and was difficult to talk to, and gave little feedback on lab reports. This lab is a huge waste of time and poorly planned and designed.

Lectures were heavily conceptual, very hard to understand the formatting of the lectures as they did not follow the textbook we were told to study. Emailed him questions for clarification on multiple occasions and was met with a rude response that prevented me from accessing materials needed in a timely manner.

This is one of the worst professors I had at Physics Department. I don't recommend this professor. You will learn lot facts about Greece and nothing about physics.

A major issue lies with the physics TAs, many of whom lack a solid understanding of basic physics. They require proper training before assisting with experiments, and they should be required to attend classes alongside us to build the foundation. Dr. Chronis and the physics department must consider these concerns & take steps to improve the labs.

He seems like a good guy who can't teach

Very difficult and unforgiving professor. I have never heard of a physics course where there is no partial credit given and homework is graded on accuracy. To make things worse, I am an athlete and I emailed him to say I was going to have to make up a test for an out of state trip and he said no. At that point I just dropped. Do not take him.

Chronis does not know how to effectively teach his students. He purposely starts his lectures incredibly confusingly and spends the entire class time showing off his brain because he understands the subject and the students don't, then ends the lecture by showing what needs to be done in the last 5 minutes of class. Take physics at Calhoun.

He has I massive ego.

To preface, Dr. Chronis is not the worst STEM professor at UAH. I graduated with my BSME and took him for both physics w/ calculus courses. Still, if you're serious about building a foundation in Newtonian mechanics, take them with someone else. Cheating through the online work will only hurt you when you hit Dynamics and other weed-out classes.

He likes to speak, but rarely makes any sense. Attendance isn't mandatory. Try to avoid him if at all possible.

Chronis is a physics genius, but his lectures are incoherent and confusing. His lectures are mainly theory-based, while the homework and tests are problem-based. He writes the lab manual, and there are many mistakes, broken links, and poorly phrased questions. Be prepared to spend 4-6 hours a week on the lab. Overall, I don't recommend him.

Chronis leads every lab section for the physics curriculum. Each lab takes a minimum 5+ hours per week in addition to time spent in the lab. The TAs often do not know what is happening and it leads to labs being more confusing than necessary and there is no rubric for reports leading to grades wildly varying report to report based on the TAs mood

This lab course is so bad and I dislike it so much. The lab manual is full of errors, hardly tells you what to do and is like a cryptic puzzle that makes sense to no one. Often the links and data had issues, the instruments were really bad at recording data and it was overall really bad. He leads every lab though so can't avoid how bad these are.

Average percentage scores for the whole class on the last three exams: 33%, 44.4%, 36.7%. No partial credit is given. Questions on the the final are more difficult and in a different format than on the practice exam. Homework is 50% of the grade so it is your only chance to pass is to get 100% on the homeworks. Good luck.

Did all the homework. Studied all the homework in preparation for the tests. 66% on the first test, then 14%, then 22%, and 24% on the final. The homework does not prepare you at all for the tests. There was a review for the final exam and only 2 or 3 of the 25 questions on the review showed up on the final in some form. Find a different professor.