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Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Evolving Universe by Caltech

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About the Course

This is an introductory astronomy survey class that covers our understanding of the physical universe and its major constituents, including planetary systems, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, larger structures, and the universe as a whole....

Top reviews

MV

Mar 29, 2019

To try to compress the universe in only a few lessons is incredibly hard so we can only say this is an introductory course. I hope other courses are developed to explore this subject more deeply.

JH

Jul 15, 2017

Wonderful course! A brief introduction to cosmology but with plenty of material to cover. I recommend researching for papers additionally to the material, but you'll need more time than 4 weeks.

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By Ankit M

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Feb 26, 2022

fantastic

By xela j

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Apr 7, 2021

Excellent

By Som D

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Jun 7, 2018

excellent

By Mehmet K

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Jan 3, 2018

Very good

By Bùi T T T

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Jan 15, 2016

Excellent

By Luis M A V

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May 30, 2017

Exellent

By Lincoln A

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Dec 29, 2015

Great!!!

By Himanshu S

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Aug 19, 2015

nice

By Mike B

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Sep 17, 2015

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By sarfraz k

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Jan 8, 2022

an intermediate course in astronomy with many topics and an enormous amount of details covered in lectures. The lecture slides were outstanding. Some of the calculations were very difficult. A very experienced lecturer but I was unable to understand fully numerous concepts he explained because of his accent. Had to read some of the transcripts to know what he was talking about. I put up the volume to 100% when listening to all his lectures but the sound quality of all the lectures were pretty poor as I had to strain my ears to hear the lecturer. Is it my laptop or were the recordings of all the lectures not good?

Overall, the lecturer was excellent but rather boring to listen to. I've gained a colossal amount of knowledge in astronomy even though I struggled a lot to understand many concepts.

Thank you Caltech and the Professor of this course. Very pleased with my Certificate!

By Adrián D C

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Apr 29, 2020

The syllabus is well thought and organized, it follows a suitable transition from the fundaments to the most challenging topics about modern astronomy/astrophysics. The only complain is the way the modules are addressed, as they consist of pure slide presentation with the occasional quiz, and while I think that's important, I think it's lacking additional resources like problem sets and assignments.

Nevertheless, a great course for introducing to the marvelous world of astronomy.

By MrTascat

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Jun 25, 2021

I enjoyed the course a great deal and it achieved giving me a great understanding of the basics of this field of study and will persue it further.

A comment to consider is that the texts for the course had many interesting and challenging speech translation requiring much editing and correction. It required intense listening to get the correct words and phrasing, though in many ways this assisted in embedding the subject.

By Carla S F G C

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Jun 27, 2020

The topics are very interesting and I learned a lot from this course. I do not think the level is a beginner level, this course requires you to have a knowledge level higher than beginner to be able to keep up with all content. I did enjoy the lectures and the materials.

By Ken S

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Mar 15, 2021

The course was very well developed. My only criticism would be that some of the graphical evidence presented was very difficult to follow as the lecturer did not take time to identify the variables or to clearly identify terms and their meaning in several cases.

By vestron

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Oct 14, 2015

You know what, it's not that complex.... it was never that complex...... humans are missing something very basic, elemental, kinda stupid thing I guess. Humans need another stupid.

By Hugh G

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Apr 6, 2020

a novel perspective on the subject by a master of the subject -- the course itself needs more attention though; transcripts are messy and tests have typos

By Aniket R

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Aug 25, 2020

Caltech needs to add few more videos other than the class hour recordings plus detail resources for the assignment which can be matched with it.

By Chris J M

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Aug 13, 2020

Excellent course, although the math was a bit overwhelming. I however achieved my goal of gaining a broader understanding of the universe.

By Timothey S

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Jun 14, 2020

At first, I was skeptical and it took me a lot of time (and I hated it), but then I speedran the 5 last weeks in 3 days and I liked it.

By Eugene F

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May 29, 2016

In general it's fine, but I'd like to see more questions with calculations, such tasks help better understand the topic

By john p

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Jun 19, 2016

This is the third or fourth time I've reviewed this course but it still keeps asking me to

By Roberto D

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Apr 26, 2016

Great course, contents are very accurate and comprehensive, explained in a simple manner.

By Jack K

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Sep 27, 2015

Course with deep notions. Prononciation can be difficult to understand.

By Doug W

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Jan 23, 2022

Very knowledgeable instructor. A wealth of information in this course.

By Anant U

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Jun 11, 2020

Exceptional for an intro course to astronomy,cosmology,astrophysics