PHYSICS C186
Neurophysics: Brain-Mind Problem
Grades
3.51
Average grade awarded in PHYSICS C186. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
57%
of the 112 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
2 of 2 students passed
The registrar's own records: 112 grades over 4 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 4 terms ran 3.12 to 3.89.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 6.3%
- A 37 · 33.0%
- A- 20 · 17.9%
- B+ 22 · 19.6%
- B 12 · 10.7%
- B- 8 · 7.1%
- C+ 3 · 2.7%
- C 3 · 2.7%
- P 2 of 116
- I 1 of 116
- NR 1 of 116
Percentages are of the 112 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), incompletes (I), and no report (NR).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEHTA, MAYANK R reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.51 | 112 | 4 | 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
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What comes first
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In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
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: courses 1A, 1B, and 1C, or 5A, 5B, and 5C, or 6A, 6B, and 6C, Chemistry 14A or 20A, Mathematics 3A, 3B, 3C, 33A. How does mind emerge from brain? Provides summary of basic biophysics of neurons, synapses, and plasticity. Introduction to commonly used experimental and theoretical techniques of measuring, quantifying, and modeling neural activity, and their relative strengths and weakness and use of them to understand link between neural circuits, their emergent neural dynamics, and behavior in example model systems. Discussion of mechanisms of interaction between neural circuits and their role in cognition, learning, and sleep. Computer laboratory component where students learn to write simple codes to quantify neural activity patterns. Concurrently scheduled with course C286. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
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