MATH 33B
Differential Equations
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 31B with grade of C- or better. Highly recommended: course 33A. First-order, linear differential equations; second-order, linear differential equations with constant coefficients; power series solutions; linear systems. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Dr. Grossman is rather difficult but it is matched by his willingness to help. I took two courses with him and throughout both quarters he would stay well after office hours to help me (sometimes 3 hours over and this was not an isolated event). The homework questions that he writes are difficult and I almost always had to ask him how to do it but they make you think and you get a good grasp of the material after that. So, he is difficult but take the initiative to ask for help and you will be okay. Good luck.
Dr. Grossman is rather difficult but it is matched by his willingness to help. I took two courses with him and throughout both quarters he would stay well after office hours to help me (sometimes 3 hours over and this was not an isolated event). The homework questions that he writes are difficult and I almost always had to ask him how to do it but they make you think and you get a good grasp of the material after that. So, he is difficult but take the initiative to ask for help and you will be okay. Good luck.
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Spring 2020 - Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I would wait with excitement to hear Prof. Hlushchanka's intro to every lecture: "'ellao evrybdy and welcome to the wrld of differenshul equashuns." Okay, jokes aside, this course as a whole isn't that difficult as a whole, especially considering I took Math 32B the quarter before this one. Prof. Hlushchanka (whose name I definitely misspelled at least once and I never really knew how to pronounce, sorry prof!) explains things very clearly and plainly with very little room for misinterpretation. He understands how to present the material in a way that helps the students learn. He's also just genuinely a nice guy. He was very accommodating to my needs as a student. For context, this was during the COVID-19 quarantine, when we were doing everything remotely. Some of you may also remember that many online classes during this time were prone to "Zoom bombing," where random people would invade meetings to spew racial slurs and abusive language for the sake of internet trolling. We were the constant victim of that for the first two weeks of the course. In response, Prof. Hlushchanka took an hour out of his busy schedule to redo the lecture and bent over backward to make sure the lectures were safe and had adequate security to prevent that from happening. He also sent out emails apologizing to the students who felt threatened and that he would take suggestions on how to improve the security of the meetings, which was a pretty heartwarming move on his part. Great professor, would take again. :)
Spring 2020 - Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I would wait with excitement to hear Prof. Hlushchanka's intro to every lecture: "'ellao evrybdy and welcome to the wrld of differenshul equashuns." Okay, jokes aside, this course as a whole isn't that difficult as a whole, especially considering I took Math 32B the quarter before this one. Prof. Hlushchanka (whose name I definitely misspelled at least once and I never really knew how to pronounce, sorry prof!) explains things very clearly and plainly with very little room for misinterpretation. He understands how to present the material in a way that helps the students learn. He's also just genuinely a nice guy. He was very accommodating to my needs as a student. For context, this was during the COVID-19 quarantine, when we were doing everything remotely. Some of you may also remember that many online classes during this time were prone to "Zoom bombing," where random people would invade meetings to spew racial slurs and abusive language for the sake of internet trolling. We were the constant victim of that for the first two weeks of the course. In response, Prof. Hlushchanka took an hour out of his busy schedule to redo the lecture and bent over backward to make sure the lectures were safe and had adequate security to prevent that from happening. He also sent out emails apologizing to the students who felt threatened and that he would take suggestions on how to improve the security of the meetings, which was a pretty heartwarming move on his part. Great professor, would take again. :)
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