PHYSICS 1C / CORBIN, BRENT

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity

How PHYSICS 1C grades when CORBIN, BRENT teaches it. PHYSICS 1C, every instructor CORBIN, BRENT, every course

Grades, this instructor

2.98adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

341 letter grades across 2 terms, Fall 2023 to Fall 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.31 over 4,121 letter grades.

Raw average: 2.96; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 35.5%; A+, A and A minus out of 341 letter grades.
D, F or W: 5%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 1.4%; 2 of 5 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+0 / 0%
A106 / 31.1%
A-15 / 4.4%
B+14 / 4.1%
B86 / 25.2%
B-13 / 3.8%
C+17 / 5%
C58 / 17%
C-15 / 4.4%
D+0 / 0%
D8 / 2.3%
D-5 / 1.5%
F4 / 1.2%
I1 of 347
NP3 of 347
P2 of 347

Percentages are of the 341 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). They are excluded from GPA.

Term by term

Raw averages for the terms in this record. A missing term does not establish that this instructor did not teach it. Summer sessions are included when present.

Dashed line: course average across all instructors, 3.31.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20233.03124 letter grades.

Fall 20252.93217 letter grades.

Is one term a guide to the next?

Across the measured corpus, the same course and instructor's term averages were strongly correlated, including terms several years apart. That is why the adjustment does not weight recent terms more heavily. This is a dataset-wide pattern, not a promise about this instructor's next class.

Teaching it in Fall 2026

Section

Lec 1

TR 10:00am-11:50am

Seats

Open

47 seats left.

134 of 180 enrolled

Seat risk

medium risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (4)

Dis 1AM 8:00am-8:50amopen: 19 seats left.

Dis 1DW 11:00am-11:50amopen: 4 seats left.

Dis 1BM 9:00am-9:50amopen: 19 seats left.

Dis 1CW 10:00am-10:50amopen: 5 seats left.

Every PHYSICS 1C section and instructor

Reading these figures

Raw is the mean of the recorded letter grades. The adjusted historical GPA pulls an instructor's average toward the course's adjusted average, which itself uses a department prior. It is a comparison aid, not a calibrated prediction or a student rating. Small samples carry more uncertainty. All recorded instructor roles are included, and a section is counted only once for this instructor. Grades cannot establish workload or explain why outcomes differed.

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