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. i The mean of every letter grade the registrar has published for this course, pooled across every instructor who has taught it. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were. It is not shrunk toward anything, because a course average cannot be pulled toward itself. Standard error 0.009.

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.

By instructor

“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.

Reviews for PHYSICS 1B ↗

What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before PHYSICS 1B. dibs has read a class page for every course in 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.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 02 Sep 02:40: the oldest of these 10 readings. The registrar publishes hourly and dibs reads what it can each hour, so a row can be older than that.

• Lec 1 TR 10:00am-11:50am

  Open

  Wang, G.

  3.21

  course average · 5,033 grades

  12 seats left. 175 of 187 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Transfers Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  4 discussions, all open.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)

  • Dis 1A

    T 8:00am-8:50am · Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

    Open

    6 seats left.

    41 of 47 enrolled

  • Dis 1B

    T 9:00am-9:50am · Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

    Open

    4 seats left.

    43 of 47 enrolled

  • Dis 1C

    R 1:00pm-1:50pm · Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

    Open

    1 seat left.

    46 of 47 enrolled

  • Dis 1D

    R 2:00pm-2:50pm · Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

    Open

    1 seat left.

    45 of 46 enrolled

• Lec 2 TR 12:00pm-1:50pm

  Open

  Wang, G.

  3.21

  course average · 5,033 grades

  66 seats left. 102 of 168 enrolled medium risk i A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.

  standing limit limited by standing: New Transfers Only: restrictions read 2 hours ago

  4 discussions, all open.

  This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 4 discussions below.

  › Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)

  • Dis 2A

    M 8:00am-8:50am · Physics and Astronomy Building 2748

    Open

    24 seats left.

    15 of 39 enrolled

  • Dis 2B

    M 9:00am-9:50am · Physics and Astronomy Building 2748

    Open

    18 seats left.

    21 of 39 enrolled

  • Dis 2C

    M 4:00pm-4:50pm · Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

    Open

    3 seats left.

    44 of 47 enrolled

  • Dis 2D

    M 5:00pm-5:50pm · Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

    Open

    21 seats left.

    22 of 43 enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 116 and 186 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 164 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.