PHYSICS 5C
Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
Grades
3.37
Average grade awarded in PHYSICS 5C. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
56%
of the 5,652 letter grades
D, F or W
1.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
86% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 5,652 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. No summer session is in that record. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 2.98 to 3.59.
- A+ 592 · 10.5%
- A 1,866 · 33.0%
- A- 704 · 12.5%
- B+ 596 · 10.5%
- B 700 · 12.4%
- B- 365 · 6.5%
- C+ 239 · 4.2%
- C 314 · 5.6%
- C- 170 · 3.0%
- D+ 27 · 0.5%
- D 35 · 0.6%
- D- 9 · 0.2%
- F 35 · 0.6%
- P 25 of 5,717
- NP 4 of 5,717
- I 36 of 5,717
Percentages are of the 5,652 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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.27 | 1,077 | 4 | 48% | light | not teaching it |
| TUNG, NATHAN C reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.49 | 951 | 3 | 64% | light | not teaching it |
| NIEMANN, CHRISTOPH reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.31 | 900 | 5 | 52% | light | not teaching it |
| JIANG, HONG-WEN reviews ↗ | 3.01 | 3.00 | 547 | 3 | 33% | - | not teaching it |
| SHI, QIANHUI reviews ↗ | 3.47 | 3.47 | 520 | 2 | 66% | average | not teaching it |
| CORBIN, BRENT reviews ↗ | 2.97 | 2.95 | 394 | 2 | 32% | heavy | not teaching it |
| SCHRIVER, DAVID reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.85 | 382 | 2 | 88% | very light | not teaching it |
| NARANJO, BRIAN B reviews ↗ | 3.29 | 3.29 | 363 | 2 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| ROMBES III, NICHOLAS DEMETRIOS reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 3.74 | 354 | 1 | 82% | - | not teaching it |
| BOZOVIC, DOLORES reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.77 | 164 | 1 | 80% | light | 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.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for PHYSICS 5C, 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 Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
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, three hours; discussion, one hour; laboratory, two hours. Requisite: course 5A. Electrostatics in vacuum and in water. Electricity, circuits, magnetism, quantum, atomic and nuclear physics, radioactivity, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. P/NP or letter grading.