CHEM 110B
Topics in Physical Chemistry
Grades
3.21
Average grade awarded in CHEM 110B. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
43%
of the 256 letter grades
D, F or W
3.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 256 grades over 8 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 8 terms ran 2.90 to 3.38.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 31 · 12.1%
- A 66 · 25.8%
- A- 13 · 5.1%
- B+ 32 · 12.5%
- B 55 · 21.5%
- B- 17 · 6.6%
- C+ 5 · 2.0%
- C 26 · 10.2%
- C- 1 · 0.4%
- D 5 · 2.0%
- F 5 · 2.0%
- P 1 of 259
- I 2 of 259
Percentages are of the 256 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MASON, THOMAS G reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.28 | 102 | 3 | 52% | heavy | not teaching it |
| BENSIMON, DAVID BERNARD reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.13 | 101 | 3 | 31% | heavy | not teaching it |
| GELBART, WILLIAM M reviews ↗ | 3.22 | 3.21 | 27 | 1 | 44% | light | not teaching it |
| BOUCHARD, LOUIS-SERGE reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.30 | 26 | 1 | 54% | - | 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.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
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 7 courses long before CHEM 110B. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 110B in Spring 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 14BE, CHEM 20B, CHEM 20BH, LIFESCI 30B, MATH 3B, MATH 3C, and PHYSICS 1BH, 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 Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Winter 2022. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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; tutorial, one hour. Requisites: courses 110A, 113A, Mathematics 32B, all with grades of C- or better. Kinetic theory of gases, principles of statistical mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, equilibrium structure and free energy, macroscopic chemical kinetics. Interaction of radiation with matter, microwave spectroscopy, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, vibrations in polyatomic molecules, electronic spectroscopy. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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