PHYSICS 170N
Computational Physics and Astronomy Laboratory
Grades
3.65
Average grade awarded in PHYSICS 170N. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
77%
of the 53 letter grades
D, F or W
1.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 53 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 3.61 to 3.70.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 16 · 30.2%
- A 20 · 37.7%
- A- 5 · 9.4%
- B+ 3 · 5.7%
- B 3 · 5.7%
- B- 2 · 3.8%
- C+ 1 · 1.9%
- C- 2 · 3.8%
- D- 1 · 1.9%
- I 1 of 54
Percentages are of the 53 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: 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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DA COSTA ALVES, EDUARDO PAULO JORGE reviews ↗ | 3.63 | 3.65 | 32 | 2 | 78% | - | not teaching it |
| ROY, RAHUL reviews ↗ | 3.62 | 3.64 | 21 | 2 | 76% | - | 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
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 2 of the last 3 Springs. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Spring 2024.
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
(Formerly numbered 180N.) Lecture, two hours; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 105B, 110B, 112 (or Astronomy 115), 115B. Prior experience in working with computers is helpful but not required. Designed to give first-hand experience in solving physics and astronomy problems on computers. Project-based course, with projects selected from core areas of classical mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum physics, statistical physics, and astronomy. Introduction to problems and to required numerical methods in lectures, so students can write programs in one modern programming language of their choice (Python recommended) and carry out numerical experiments with it, with results documented in reports. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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