PHYSICS 1B
Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
Grades
3.21
Average grade awarded in PHYSICS 1B. Not a rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
45%
of the 5,033 letter grades
D, F or W
2.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
5 of 9 students passed
The registrar's own records: 5,033 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, summer excluded. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 3.02 to 3.61.
- A+ 282 · 5.6%
- A 1,414 · 28.1%
- A- 565 · 11.2%
- B+ 485 · 9.6%
- B 966 · 19.2%
- B- 343 · 6.8%
- C+ 276 · 5.5%
- C 464 · 9.2%
- C- 132 · 2.6%
- D+ 23 · 0.5%
- D 34 · 0.7%
- D- 8 · 0.2%
- F 41 · 0.8%
- P 5 of 5,064
- NP 4 of 5,064
- I 22 of 5,064
Percentages are of the 5,033 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORBIN, BRENT reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 3.10 | 1,519 | 10 | 39% | average | not teaching it |
| GUTPERLE, MICHAEL reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 3.06 | 680 | 3 | 37% | light | not teaching it |
| KUSENKO, ALEXANDER reviews ↗ | 3.26 | 3.26 | 354 | 1 | 44% | light | not teaching it |
| TUNG, NATHAN C reviews ↗ | 3.56 | 3.58 | 351 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| MUSUMECI, PIETRO reviews ↗ | 3.25 | 3.25 | 340 | 2 | 43% | - | not teaching it |
| HAUSER, JAY reviews ↗ | 3.19 | 3.19 | 339 | 2 | 42% | light | not teaching it |
| CARTER, TROY A reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 3.09 | 186 | 1 | 37% | average | not teaching it |
| WANG, SHENSHEN reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.46 | 184 | 1 | 57% | - | not teaching it |
| PETTA, JASON R reviews ↗ | 3.09 | 3.08 | 175 | 1 | 37% | very light | not teaching it |
| BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 3.05 | 162 | 1 | 37% | light | not teaching it |
| HAMILTON, PAUL reviews ↗ | 3.09 | 3.07 | 154 | 1 | 38% | - | not teaching it |
| ROMBES III, NICHOLAS DEMETRIOS reviews ↗ | 3.44 | 3.46 | 150 | 1 | 65% | - | not teaching it |
| MCKEOWN, DANIEL FREDERICK reviews ↗ | 3.77 | 3.84 | 128 | 1 | 88% | - | not teaching it |
| FREIMAN, GABRIEL reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.57 | 113 | 1 | 73% | - | not teaching it |
| TSUNG, FRANK reviews ↗ | 3.29 | 3.30 | 86 | 1 | 55% | - | not teaching it |
| ROVIGE, LUCAS PIERRE reviews ↗ | 3.19 | 3.19 | 72 | 1 | 35% | - | not teaching it |
| POWELL, IAN EMMANUEL reviews ↗ | 3.23 | 3.23 | 40 | 1 | 50% | - | not teaching it |
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for PHYSICS 1B, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 1A, Mathematics 31B, 32A. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 32B. Fluid mechanics, oscillation, mechanical waves, and sound. Electric charge, field and potential, capacitors, and dielectrics. Currents and resistance, direct-current circuits. P/NP or letter grading.