PHYSICS 1C · Dis 2A
Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
Seats, time, final and grades
Seats
Closed.
18 of 18 · 31 over enrolled.
Its lecture reads closed (190 of 190 · 1 over enrolled): you attend both, so this seat is not one you can take while that holds. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
Meets
F 11:00am-11:50am
This discussion only. You also attend Lec 2.
Final
Wed 9 Dec, 3:00pm to 6:00pm
One exam for the whole class, Los Angeles time.
Read 2 hours ago.
Grades
4,121 letter grades, everyone who has taught PHYSICS 1C.
Read 25 minutes ago. This is a recent reading, not a live seat count.
dibs has seen this section open 3 times since 17 August. The last time was 12 September.
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Put this class on a board
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Before you can enroll
Tell dibs what you have already taken and this line will say which of these you have. Your list.
The registrar says this two ways. Its requisites table calls the requisite above a warning, so enrollment is not blocked, and its course description for PHYSICS 1C calls the same requisite enforced. dibs follows the table and cannot tell you which one the department will act on. Read the registrar's own page.
From the registrar limited early, then open
Seats are held for entering students who enroll through New Student Orientation sessions beginning July 2, 2026. New student restrictions will be lifted on September 15, 2026 at 8 a.m.
The limit stands until 15 September, and lifts then. dibs still counts this class as one you can take, but not yet.
Restrictions read 2 hours ago.
When it meets
Meets: F 11:00am-11:50am
Lecture: TR 12:00pm-1:50pm
Physics and Astronomy Building 2434
Grades
Of the 15 people in the grade record for PHYSICS 1C, the 2 with the most grades: MCKEOWN, DANIEL FREDERICK at 3.29 over 641 grades and TUNG, NATHAN C at 3.19 over 577 grades.
- A range
- 52%
- P/NP
- <1%
- D/F/W
- 3.6%
What students say
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast it fills. For what the class is actually like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What the work looks like
- 3 exams, said by 2 reviewers
- 5 quizzes, said by 2 reviewers
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 380 reviews about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
Will it still be here
high risk chance of closing before your enrollment pass.
Final enrollment per term from four years of grade data. Summer excluded: different population, different pass structure.
- 12121F
- 14922W
- 13222S
- 11622F
- 18423W
- 14023S
- 11323F
- 15424W
- 17224S
- 18024F
- 16825W
- 9825S
- 11125F
Peak 184 · most recent 25F at 111
Seats over time
Freed 28 seats over about 2 months
3 times reopenedA dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist. Flat between dots joins recorded counts; changes between reads may be missed. The line starts when dibs first saw this section rather than reaching back before it existed. The last one is the last time dibs read this section, moved or not: 25 minutes ago.
Show the readings (48)
| Recorded | Enrolled | Capacity | Status | Waitlist | Hours read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 20:52 | 18 | 18 | closed | 2 of 2 | 1 of 1 |
| 1 Oct 20:52 | 18 | 18 | closed | 2 of 2 | 1 of 1 |
| 1 Oct 20:30 | 49 | 49 | closed | 2 of 2 | 3 of 3 |
| 1 Oct 18:50 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 1 of 1 |
| 1 Oct 18:00 | 49 | 49 | closed | 2 of 2 | 3 of 3 |
| 1 Oct 16:10 | 18 | 18 | closed | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| 1 Oct 15:30 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 7 of 7 |
| 1 Oct 09:30 | 18 | 18 | closed | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| 1 Oct 08:30 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 3 of 3 |
| 1 Oct 06:52 | 18 | 18 | closed | 2 of 2 | 96 of 102 |
| 27 Sep 01:00 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 3 of 3 |
| 26 Sep 23:10 | 48 | 48 | waitlist | 1 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| 26 Sep 22:22 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| 26 Sep 21:30 | 48 | 48 | waitlist | 1 of 2 | 3 of 3 |
| 26 Sep 19:40 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| 26 Sep 18:52 | 48 | 48 | waitlist | 1 of 2 | 1 of 1 |
| 26 Sep 18:20 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 5 of 5 |
| 26 Sep 14:50 | 48 | 48 | waitlist | 1 of 2 | 1 of 1 |
| 26 Sep 14:20 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | 17 of 17 |
| 25 Sep 22:22 | 48 | 48 | waitlist | 1 of 2 | 32 of 72, 39 no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 23:40 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 22:50 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 22:02 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 19:20 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 18:00 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 16:20 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 13:50 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 12:10 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 22 Sep 11:32 | 48 | 48 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 18 Sep 01:10 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 18 Sep 00:30 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 21:40 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 21:00 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 19:22 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 17:20 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 13:40 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 13:00 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 12:22 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 12:10 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Sep 11:20 | 47 | 47 | closed | 2 of 2 | no hourly record |
| 12 Sep 03:37 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 12 Sep 00:12 | 46 | 47 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 11 Sep 22:02 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 5 Sep 05:40 | 46 | 47 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Aug 19:55 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Aug 18:55 | 46 | 47 | open | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Aug 17:55 | 47 | 47 | closed | - | no hourly record |
| 17 Aug 16:42 | 46 | 47 | open | - | - |
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
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Class chat
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