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PHYSICS 1CH

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Honors)

Lecture/demonstration, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 1AH or 1A, 1BH or 1B, Mathematics 32A, 32B. Enforced corequisite: Mathematics 33A. Recommended corequisite: Mathematics 33B. Enriched preparation for upper-division physics courses. Same material as course 1C but in greater depth; recommended for Physics majors and other students desiring such coverage. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.48
n = 106 · 3 terms · ± 0.050
A range
60%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— of those passed
D / F / W
1.9%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

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.

  • 2822S
  • 3323S
  • 4525S
Enrolment by term: 22S 28, 23S 33, 25S 45
Peak 45 Most recent 45 in 25S 3 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 8 · 7.5%
  • A 41 · 38.7%
  • A- 15 · 14.2%
  • B+ 13 · 12.3%
  • B 12 · 11.3%
  • B- 7 · 6.6%
  • C+ 6 · 5.7%
  • C 2 · 1.9%
  • D 2 · 1.9%

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
ONG, RENE A 3.42 3.41 73 2 58%
LEIBRANDT, DAVID R 3.59 3.64 33 1 67%

“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