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PHYSICS 1C / HAMILTON, DAVID WARREN

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

How PHYSICS 1C grades when HAMILTON, DAVID WARREN teaches it. PHYSICS 1C, every instructor HAMILTON, DAVID WARREN, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.53adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

434 letter grades across 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Summer Session A 2022. The course pools every instructor at 3.31 over 4,121 letter grades.

Raw average
3.54
The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range
65%
A+, A and A minus out of 434 letter grades.
D, F or W
1.2%
D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass
1.1%
5 of 5 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

  • A+64 / 14.7%
  • A130 / 30%
  • A-88 / 20.3%
  • B+61 / 14.1%
  • B40 / 9.2%
  • B-23 / 5.3%
  • C+12 / 2.8%
  • C7 / 1.6%
  • C-4 / 0.9%
  • D+1 / 0.2%
  • D1 / 0.2%
  • D-0 / 0%
  • F3 / 0.7%
  • I1 of 440
  • P5 of 440

Percentages are of the 434 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) 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.

3.003.504.003.5321F3.5522W3.6022S3.27221

Dashed line: course average across all instructors, 3.31.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared
Fall 20213.53138 letter grades.
Winter 20223.55117 letter grades.
Spring 20223.60144 letter grades.
Summer Session A 20223.2735 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

No sections are confirmed under this instructor's record in the course listing dibs read for Fall 2026.

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.

What students say

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