He rushes all of his lectures, and does a very poor job explaining how to solve problems. Also, he cannot answer questions from students adequately. If you've never had physics or aren't very confident about it going into 140, REGISTER FOR A DIFFERENT SECTION

Terrible teacher, rushes through his lectures, very unclear on explanations, skips important steps during example problems, simply can't teach.

Toby seems like a nice guy, but is by far the worst lecturer I've ever been "taught" by. He skips through vital portions of materials, and goes into detail on trivial/non-testable subjects. He has no sense of what, when or how to emphasize key points, the vast majority of the class tuned him out because following him was an exercise in futility.

Terrible person. Can't really understand what he is talking about. Exams this semester were much harder than they have ever been. Tells us on THE DAY OF the exam that it's gonna be hard and to study hard. AVOID HIM.

Him teaching this class along with Tomasch made it a terrible experience. Exams are terrible. He doesn't explain things very well. Shows no concern for his people's success. He is certainly one to avoid.

I don't like physics, but Prof. Eckhause made me despise it even more-so. Despite getting an A, I thought the organization, teaching style, and case studies in this class were dismal and pointless. Classes like this make me irritated that researchers are required to teach, as I'm sure was the case for Toby. Buy the book, its the only way to learn.

Attending Dr. Eckhause's lectures taught me nothing. He didn't seem to fully understand what he was teaching and probably could have benefited from prepping for lecture. He was always one step behind Professor Chupp and he is bad at corresponding via email. If you plan on taking Physics 235 at Michigan and are not serious, take Eckhause for laughs.

Tobias should not be teaching at the UofM. Every class all semester was all iClicker questions, where you just blindly guess because Tobias doesn't teach. The classic is when he attempts to explain after an iClicker question because the entire lecture hall got it wrong. He also makes many mistakes in class/on slides and fixes them on exam day!

Toby is a good guy with a good personality but is overall a horrible professor. His lectures often move too quickly for most students, he doesn't offer very accessible office hours, and he makes a difficult class even tougher by confusing students with inconsistent examples. If you already know the subject, then you will be fine in this class.

Toby is a really nice man but a really poor professor. There is no logical flow and from the first day of the semester, students became lost in the material. Every lecture, students struggle intensely with the iClicker questions. Most students sit on their phones because if you try to pay attention, you will soon be lost in the material.

Very unclear, and reading the book before lecture like he suggests is only marginally helpful. Boring to listen to and not a strong presenter. Exams are haphazard in content distribution & difficult to study for, the breadth of content just encourages memorization (this is physics!) and homework takes far too much time for the points it is worth.

Probably my worst professor at UM. His method of teaching involves having students read the textbook to learn concepts and basically answer iClicker questions throughout lecture. This wouldn't be a huge problem, except the textbook is not very good. His explanations are very unclear and usually come after already answering the iClicker questions.

Worst class I have taken at this school. Dull lecturer. Explanations are not clear. So many iClicker questions and mastering physics problems. I highly recommend not taking this class with him.

Lecture is a complete waste of time even though its mandatory because of iclicker. I did not learn 1 thing in this class but was still able to get A's on exams. He lectures about topics as if you already know them and paying attention in lecture does not have an impact on your performance in the class.

Horribly unclear lecturer, the book doesn't help much either. He's a nice guy and can be funny but he's quiet and generally dull to listen to. His exams are difficult but not especially fair, and no homework gets dropped. So happy to have escaped with an A-. Take it with Chupp if you can

Toby is a horrendous professor. I did very well in this class solely by teaching myself the practice exam material outside of class using outside resources. I did other homework in lecture because listening to Toby was a waste of time. Lecture everyday is essentially nonstop pop quizzes on material you haven't learned yet.

Toby knows the material, but not how to teach it. Class didn't prepare you for the exams.

Get ready for exams to cover things either unmentioned in lecture or briefly shown on a slide and never explained throughly. There is NO recognition of students struggling with any concept and lecture covers so much material in so little time you're left reeling. Mastering Physics is either incomprehensible or not used in class. Hard pass if u can

Super sweet guy but can't connect with students on a teaching level. Neither prof realizes no one knows what they are talking about. Splitting a Chegg account is almost required to do well in the class. Try to get old slides with iClicker answers from a friend because neither prof gives answers like Wayne did for 135.

Dr. Eckhause is a very nice person, and I can tell that he really tries to help his students learn. However, his lectures are entirely useless. They consist of a stream of equation derivations and demonstrations with no structure or order, with iClicker questions thrown in to make us show up. Each homework is filled with mistakes and ambiguities.

Dr. Eckhause's lectures are consisting of mostly what is on the textbook and math concepts that we never use in this class. Lectures are not helpful, so I mostly studied from other ways. Also, homework are very stressful and long too.

He cannot explain the material. He creates exams that make me think he is trying to make students cry. We are happy when we can pull a 50...... I hate physics even more now.

Terrible professor. Honestly I don't know how to describe him. Imagine a guy who isn't confident at anything he does and now make him a physics professor. The guy's notes are super difficult to comprehend as they are word heavy. I would take this class somewhere else. Btw did not learn any physics whatsoever.

you shouldn't have to pay for a class that you teach yourself. this class is exactly that. i am learning nothing

The homework is very difficult, it's graded tough, and it's not similar to the exams at all. The exams were impossible to study for because they were so different from the in-class examples, the homework, and the previous exams. He taught to the material ok, but because he provided bad homework and exams, it's impossible to excel in this class.

One of the worst instructors I have ever had, bar none. Dr. Eckhause expects students to have mastery of material both before lecture as well as before doing the homework: lectures are hard to understand since he explains concepts using calculus despite it not being required (at least on paper) for the class. Avoid at all costs.

Toby is genuinely a nice and intelligent guy, but he is not the best lecturer by any means. He spends most of the class time deriving equations using calculus and too much jargon, and then expects you to solve challenging iclicker questions on the material for credit 5 min later. Everyone I know uses chegg/coursehero to pass bc of hw difficulty

I hate saying anything bad because he's a nice man and seems like he's trying. He's good in office hours. But honestly he's the worst professor I've ever had, by a large margin. MasteringPhysics homeworks are irrelevant to class problems and are tedious, lecture is disorganized due to group questions, and understanding is minimal among students

Here is a professor who can not speak in front of a class at all. This is a formula based class that one would think should be straightforward and easy to teach. Explain theory, explain equation, give example. Not with him. He teaches things out of order, has slides full of errors, inconsistencies and derivation. Toby should not be allowed to teach

Honestly the worst teacher IVE EVER HAD. he literally does not teach. when you come into class he assumes you have read the textbook and understand the material, so he puts a list of questions up, lets you work on them for 45 mins, and finishes with iclickers that count for accuracy. YOU CAN NOT LEARN MATH FROM A TEXTBOOK but get ready to try !

There was, in my opinion, very little explanation of the subject in lecture, so you better make sure you always do the reading. The lectures did not clear anything up. Others told me they learned more from outside sources, and I did. Grading scale has no curve to it either, so better get Bs or up on the exam or you'll barely pass the class.

One of the worst professors I have ever had. The material is so difficult to comprehend, especially in the online format. The exams are extremely difficult to even complete. He cannot simplify things and make them easier to understand. He gives you work the night before the exam, and the day right after. He has no compassion or understanding.

This class somehow subtracted from my physics knowledge. Toby is a nice guy, with stellar guitar skills, but cannot translate complicated physics into english. The homework is impossible without chegg, and the exams are just impossible. In conclusion, if you need physics credit, don't take it at the University of Michigan.

He is very poor at explaining concepts in lecture. He goes through slides very quickly when there is a lot of information on them, and conversely takes a long time to explain irrelevant information. He does not really teach any concepts but rather expects you to read the textbook to learn. I had to teach myself everything from online homework. 3/10

god awful teacher, doesn't explain anything or why anything is what it is. He teaches this class as if you have 10 years of experience in physics. Be ready to self-teach.

Dr. Eckhause was a nice person but a horrible teacher. His lectures were confusing and students rarely asked questions because his answers didn't really address our questions. Exams are very difficult and he expects students to know formulas not taught in class. I attended almost every office hours and still felt like I didn't learn anything.

Do not take 140 with Eckhause. He is incapable of teaching students physics, and the class structure is not conducive to learning.

The average on every single midterm was a failing score and there is no curve. Instead, he blamed his students for not studying hard enough. After a lot of arguing on piazza, he curved the class 3-4% so that only half of the class either had a C or was failing. Do not take studio as the lectures are pointless and the professors do not care.

Incredibly condescending and unhelpful. His lectures are a mess and are very hard to follow. Tells students he "doesn't know why they are struggling" during office hours. When students ask for assistance, he makes it seem like the answer should have been obvious in front of the whole class. Worst professor I've had at UMich by a wide, wide margin.

Usually read content directly from the slides. Exams were nothing like the homework. Expect to do most learning on your own.

Dr. Eckhause explained things extremely poorly and was often very condescending when you asked questions. He said that Physics 150 was a course that assumed you had no prior physics background, yet he would speed through a lot of topics and skip through steps of practice problems making it super hard to follow. He often disregarded student concerns

Exams were more difficult compared to the practice exams given from previous semesters. Sometimes hard to follow Dr. Eckhause's lectures. Not recommended for beginners or students with little to no physics background.

bro just cant explain i'm sorry. anytime he explains concepts in studio, i fight for my life trying to understand. nice guy though

This was a 3 hour lab and he would spend the first hour lecturing on bad, unengaging slides. The GSI was phenomenal though, I always tried to have him answer my questions instead since every question to Tobias ended up in an irrelevant 30 minute lecture. Ended up leaving most labs early to get Potbelly.

Treats lab like a lecture, will talk for an hour without engaging anyone. Not relevant to 390 lecture btw. Answers to questions just leave you more confused. Takes over a month to return assignments. Most productive thing to do in class is leave and do your work elsewhere. Ended up leaving most labs early to get Potbelly with the other guy.

Cannot explain concepts well AT ALL and always made studio so much more stressful for students than it needed to be. The other studio instructor let his section skip problems that weren't covered in lecture or were unnecessarily difficult, but Tobias didn't care at all and a lot of students would always have to stay way past class time bc of him.

bro, he cannot teach. in studio, he makes us do the problems we weren't even taught how to do at all and we end up leaving class really late and still getting points off. the other prof teaches his students and lets them skip what wasn't covered. also lowkey condescending when you ask him questions.

This class would have operated way better if this guy just left the room and let the GSI teach. Rambles for soooo long at the start of lab, rambling which is absolutely useless. Grading guidelines are incredibly unclear. Seems to not know how to code even though this lab is 50-70 percent coding. Without the GSI this class would've been a nightmare.

The exams too long/without enough time

Lectures were difficult to understand, often had mistakes, and his handwriting was extremely difficult to read. His examples rarely aided my comprehension. It was very hard to learn the material in a virtual format, and given how fast-paced this class is in the Spring, I felt like the quality didn't match the student's needs.

too little time (2 hrs) for 3 exams with 20 (mostly analytical) problems; solves FEW examples in lec, when in a PHYS course he should be doing MULTIPLE problems per topic; goes on tangents; unhelpful lec problems; terrible habit of NOT finishing problems, saying he doesn't have to, b/c we can solve the rest of the problem

Cant say enough bad things about my experience in this class. One of the worst teachers ive had. Super smart and passionate but cant teach. He is available outside of class but honestly just made me more confused. Lectures are always incorrect also