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Dibs Fall 2026

PHYSICS 10

Physics

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1A, 1AH, 5A, or 6A. Special mathematical preparation beyond that necessary for admission to University in freshman standing not required. Topics include planetary motion, Newton laws, gravitation, electricity and magnetism, wave motion, light, sound, and heat, relativity, quantum mechanics, atoms, and subatomic particles. As time permits, development of physical ideas placed in cultural and historical perspective. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.40
n = 875 · 9 terms · ± 0.018
A range
56%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
2%
71% of those passed
D / F / W
3.3%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
87 of 105
83% full
 fills MWF 10:00am-10:50am The Staff
3.40n=875 · course average

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 9121F
  • 12822S
  • 9222F
  • 8623W
  • 11923S
  • 10123F
  • 12824S
  • 12825S
Enrolment by term: 21F 91, 22S 128, 22F 92, 23W 86, 23S 119, 23F 101, 24S 128, 25S 128
Peak 128 Most recent 128 in 25S 8 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 111 · 12.4%
  • A 239 · 26.8%
  • A- 140 · 15.7%
  • B+ 107 · 12.0%
  • B 148 · 16.6%
  • B- 39 · 4.4%
  • C+ 20 · 2.2%
  • C 34 · 3.8%
  • C- 9 · 1.0%
  • D+ 4 · 0.4%
  • D 19 · 2.1%
  • F 5 · 0.6%
  • P 10 · 1.1%
  • NP 4 · 0.4%
  • I 3 · 0.3%
  • DR 1 · 0.1%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
PETTA, JASON R 3.13 3.12 246 2 38%
CHAKRAVARTY, SUDIP 3.71 3.73 183 2 83%
FABER, JUSTIN DANIEL 3.51 3.52 146 2 53%
BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY 3.47 3.48 116 1 52%
YU, TZE YEUNG MATHEW 3.28 3.26 101 1 58%
KOGAR, ANSHUL 3.33 3.32 83 1 58%

“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.

By term