Professor Chatterjee is the most approachable and caring professor I have met, but sometimes his lectures are unclear. However, go to his office hours (which are extremely accessible as he is willing to wait for two hours after lecture or schedule a one on one appointment/ phone call) and he will explain everything thoroughly and go slowly to take his time. The homework is very hard but there is only one homework assignment every week which takes about three hours to complete in total since there is a lot of computation and hard concepts involved. He will also explain difficult homework in office hours so that is a plus, and I feel like I learn a lot from doing the HW. His lectures sometimes get long and confusing/ boring but that is to be expected from a differential equations class. Overall, there is no reason to not get an A+ in the class (he heavily curves the grades as shown through the grade distribution) just go to office hours every time you don't understand a concept/ do the homework on your own knowledge. Then you will be set. (Also Chatterjee loves spring mass dashpot systems, make sure you know/ ask him all about that. Good luck!

Chatterjee cares a lot about what he is teaching and emphasizes understanding the fundamentals and knowing why things work in certain ways. If you can nail that, you will do well in the class. If you can not, you can call him, attend office hours, or even ask him to schedule 1 on 1 hours to get help. He truly cares, but is not all that clear the first time around.

Overall material from class is just 33B but with more emphasis on computational stuff and La Place transforms, 1st and 2nd order analysis of differential equations.

Chatterjee wasn't good by any means but he wasn't terrible. I personally can't understand his Indian accent, so I stopped going to lecture. The test are based on 1)theory and 2)homework. I got an A in the class just by reading and studying the textbook and doing homework. The easy thing about Chatterjee is that he tells you exactly what he is going to test you on. The bad thing is that it is very theoretical - you can never "just wing it" on a test. All in all, if you study hard what he says to, you will get an A. Also, test questions have multiple parts, so its hard to bomb. Chatterjee doesn't throw screwballs - you're not going to be doing well one day and failing the next. I would recommend him.

Chatterjee is probably one of the better professors i've had. He is really nice and extremely approachable. On the first day of class he gave us his personal number so we could call him if we had questions. I never called him, but it was comforting knowing i had that option as a last resort. His tests were fair, we were told what types of problems to expect on the finals and midterms. The problems on the tests were not as easy as the homeworks obviously, but assuming you paid attention and learned the concepts he stressed in lecture they were doable. However, thats not to say he isn't a flawless professor. Like most other reviewers have stated his lectures are rather dry. I had him during summer school so lectures were 150 minutes, and sometimes those lectures felt more like endurance tests. Almost fell asleep a couple of times. Furthermore, the slides he lectures on are posted online which makes going to class seem redundant if you can figure out the slides by yourself. He also talks somewhat softly so when i sat in the back i felt really disconnected from the lecture. The combination of not being able to hear him and the dryness of his lectures made it difficult to pay attention.

Bottom line, great professor. You would be hard pressed to find another professor who cares more about his students. His office hours are essentially anytime he is in his office and he happily makes appointments with anyone who asks. His dry lectures are unavoidable, i'd recommend sitting in the front so youre more forced to pay attention. His finals and midterms are fair and he extends his office hours by a great deal before tests to clear up any confusion. Overall, i really don't see any excuse to fail one of his classes if you seek his help. On one occasion he practically refused to let me leave his office until he was convinced i had a clear understanding of what i had been confused about.

I highly recommend that you do not take this professor. Chatterjee uploads his slides online, so he doesn't feel the need to teach during class. His lectures are completely incomprehensible. I think he lets the TAs assign the homework, so the assignments contain some of the most difficult and irrelevant problems in the book. It's impossible to finish because Chatterjee never teaches you the basic concepts before giving you these problems. Doing the homework is a complete waste of time, because the problems on the test are completely unrelated. The problems on the test are pretty simple and straightforward, but the averages are pretty low. Also, he doesn't allow you to bring a notes sheet. If you end up taking Chatterjee, I suggest that you don't do the homework at all (it's only worth 10% of your grade). Instead, focus on studying the concepts and practicing how to do some of the simpler problems in the book so that you'll be prepared for the test.