PHYSICS 110B
Electricity and Magnetism
Grades
3.21
Average grade awarded in PHYSICS 110B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
42%
of the 532 letter grades
D, F or W
3.8%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 532 grades over 10 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 10 terms ran 2.95 to 3.57.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 39 · 7.3%
- A 100 · 18.8%
- A- 86 · 16.2%
- B+ 91 · 17.1%
- B 81 · 15.2%
- B- 52 · 9.8%
- C+ 30 · 5.6%
- C 26 · 4.9%
- C- 7 · 1.3%
- D+ 3 · 0.6%
- D 10 · 1.9%
- D- 3 · 0.6%
- F 4 · 0.8%
- P 3 of 538
- I 3 of 538
Percentages are of the 532 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
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 | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHAEFFER, DEREK B reviews ↗ | 3.09 | 3.07 | 139 | 3 | 38% | very light | not teaching it |
| BACHTIS, MICHALIS reviews ↗ | 3.11 | 3.10 | 105 | 2 | 34% | - | not teaching it |
| BOZOVIC, DOLORES reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.57 | 91 | 1 | 55% | - | not teaching it |
| ZOCCHI, GIOVANNI reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.12 | 79 | 1 | 47% | very light | not teaching it |
| MIAO, JIANWEI reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.44 | 60 | 1 | 53% | - | not teaching it |
| VASSILIEV, VLADIMIR V reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 2.97 | 30 | 1 | 17% | heavy | not teaching it |
| NARANJO, BRIAN B reviews ↗ | 3.16 | 3.14 | 28 | 1 | 43% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before PHYSICS 110B. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for PHYSICS 110B in Winter 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for PHYSICS 110A, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Winters, so it turns up in Winter sometimes rather than dependably.
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. Requisite: course 110A. Corequisite: course 105B. Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves, potential and fields, radiation, Lorentz invariance. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
From the people who took it
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