CHEM 113A
Physical Chemistry: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Grades
3.42
Average grade awarded in CHEM 113A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
59%
of the 344 letter grades
D, F or W
1.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
1%
3 of 3 students passed
The registrar's own records: 344 grades over 12 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 12 terms ran 3.07 to 3.72.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 64 · 18.6%
- A 92 · 26.7%
- A- 48 · 14.0%
- B+ 35 · 10.2%
- B 40 · 11.6%
- B- 20 · 5.8%
- C+ 18 · 5.2%
- C 15 · 4.4%
- C- 7 · 2.0%
- D 3 · 0.9%
- F 2 · 0.6%
- P 3 of 348
- I 1 of 348
Percentages are of the 344 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WU, ERIC C reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.54 | 204 | 6 | 70% | very light | not teaching it |
| SHAFAAT, HANNAH reviews ↗ | 3.18 | 3.07 | 38 | 1 | 26% | - | not teaching it |
| CARAM, JUSTIN RYAN reviews ↗ | 3.38 | 3.36 | 28 | 1 | 46% | very heavy | not teaching it |
| NEUHAUSER, DANIEL reviews ↗ | 3.33 | 3.27 | 27 | 1 | 52% | average | not teaching it |
| BARR, KRISTOPHER KENT reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.25 | 24 | 2 | 50% | light | not teaching it |
| NARANG, PRINEHA reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.40 | 23 | 1 | 57% | - | 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 6 courses long before CHEM 113A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 113A 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 20B, LIFESCI 30B, and MATH 3B, 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
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. Requisites: course 20B, Mathematics 32A, 32B, 33A, Physics 1A, 1B, and 1C, or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH, or 5A, 5B, and 5C, or 6A, 6B, and 6C, with grades of C- or better. Departure from classical mechanics: Schrödinger versus Newton equations; model systems: particle-in-box, harmonic oscillator, rigid rotor, and hydrogen atom; approximation methods: perturbation and variational methods; many-electron atoms, spin, and Pauli principle, chemical bonding. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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