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Dibs Fall 2026

PHYSICS 1A

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics

Lecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Mathematics 31A, 31B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 32A. Motion, Newton laws, work, energy, linear and angular momentum, rotation, equilibrium, gravitation. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.12
n = 4,439 · 15 terms · ± 0.008
A range
42%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
1%
52% of those passed
D / F / W
5.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Open
152 of 153
99% full
 fills TR 8:00am-9:50am Corbin, B.
3.25n=443 · this instructor
Lec 2 ClosedByDept
0 of 0
— 		no history MTWF 4:00pm-4:50pm The Staff
3.12n=4,439 · course average

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 15421F
  • 16122W
  • 17722S
  • 18522F
  • 15823W
  • 16923S
  • 18623F
  • 15424W
  • 13424S
  • 18524F
  • 15325W
  • 15425S
Enrolment by term: 21F 154, 22W 161, 22S 177, 22F 185, 23W 158, 23S 169, 23F 186, 24W 154, 24S 134, 24F 185, 25W 153, 25S 154
Peak 186 Most recent 154 in 25S 12 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 295 · 6.6%
  • A 901 · 20.1%
  • A- 656 · 14.7%
  • B+ 569 · 12.7%
  • B 643 · 14.4%
  • B- 455 · 10.2%
  • C+ 268 · 6.0%
  • C 260 · 5.8%
  • C- 170 · 3.8%
  • D+ 53 · 1.2%
  • D 56 · 1.3%
  • D- 53 · 1.2%
  • F 60 · 1.3%
  • P 15 · 0.3%
  • NP 14 · 0.3%
  • I 7 · 0.2%
  • NR 1 · 0.0%
  • DR 1 · 0.0%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. 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 Raw n Terms A range
VASSILIEV, VLADIMIR V 3.26 3.26 881 5 37%
KAMAHA, ALVINE 2.91 2.90 725 4 39%
KUSENKO, ALEXANDER 2.95 2.94 708 2 35%
CORBIN, BRENT 3.25 3.25 443 3 47%
TUNG, NATHAN C 3.27 3.28 441 3 53%
SALTZBERG, DAVID 2.97 2.97 299 2 37%
BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY 2.92 2.90 197 2 36%
GELMINI, GRACIELA BEATRIZ 3.29 3.30 164 1 43%
ZOCCHI, GIOVANNI 3.76 3.81 149 1 89%
WILLIAMS, GARY A 2.87 2.85 145 1 26%
GUTPERLE, MICHAEL 3.16 3.17 122 1 39%
TODERI, MARTIN ALEJANDRO 3.25 3.28 83 2 54%
TSERKOVNYAK, YAROSLAV 2.98 2.96 82 1 33%

“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.

By term