Reviews for Hailu Gebremariam Bant
Average Rating:| MooseNinja Course: PHYS161 Grade Expected: A+ May 22, 2010, 12:19 pm | To be honest, the only reason I ever went to lecture was because of the unannounced pop quizzes. Bantu's lectures are pretty boring (and that's with a laptop). Mastering Physics (online HW) is more difficult than any of the tests (or the examples done in class). If you have even marginal experience with physics this class is a review. (but a 3 on AP C Mech doesn't place you out). |
| jahs389 Course: PHYS270 Grade Expected: B March 3, 2010, 2:03 pm | This guy isn't that bad, but he isn't that good. He should illustrate some more example problems. Instead, he primarily just uses Power-Point slides which are identical to the book, so if the book confuses you Bantu won't help that much. Also, I didn't like that he gives no sample exams whatsoever; on Fri. before a Mon. exam he just tell us "3 problems 1 is on Chap 35, 2 is on 36, 3 is on 37". However, his exams were really straightforward, everything was an example in the book or an assigned homework problem - no curve balls. |
| Anonymous Course: PHYS270 Grade Expected: A December 28, 2009, 3:34 pm | Bantu is a really nice guy and a decent lecturer, although he can be kind of boring. He goes through the material pretty slowly, which means his tests end up covering less material than usual for 270, so they are not very difficult in general. He grades very fairly and I think there was a curve at the end of the semester. He usually does one pop quiz a week, but the questions are so easy (as long as you have the equations written down). The Mastering Physics hw is not too bad, especially since he gives you 5 chances to answer each question correctly, with no loss of credit until the last chance is used up. The only really annoying thing about Bantu was that he never emailed us when he posted assignments, so you basically have to check Blackboard constantly to see if there is a written assignment and you have to check MP to see if there is a new online assignment. Overall, Bantu is definitely one of the better physics professors. |
| Anonymous Course: PHYS270 Grade Expected: A December 23, 2009, 9:36 am | Dr. Bantu is a very nice, easygoing professor who made PHYS270 a relatively easy experience. He's a rather dry lecturer, but he cracks jokes in lecture occasionally to wake up the many sleepy, bored students. However, his class was not too hard., especially compared to the other professor, Jenkins. The tests were straightforward (except maybe the second one, which almost no one finished), and the final was not even cumulative! MasteringPhysics was the homework system used and there was always help available if you knew where to look. There were quizzes in lecture at the end of each chapter, but most of the time you did not really have to go to lecture since he posts lecture powerpoints online. Also, discussion is useless. My TA always went on tangents that usually ended in him talking about Maxwell's equations, which was irrelevant to most of the topics we were covering. The worst part of this class is the lab which counts for 25% of the 270 grade. Fortunately, we only had it every other week, but my experience was awful since no one knew what he or she was doing and the TA couldn't speak a word of English and explain anything! Overall, definitely take Bantu over any other PHYS270 professor! |
| Anonymous Course: PHYS270 Grade Expected: January 24, 2009, 11:23 am | It only requires V5 but actually uses V3,4 and5. Does not make sense to buy 3 books. Try the full volume(ISBN:0805389601)! It will be a lot cheaper. |