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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 Deleted A

Feb 16, 2019

good course. good content

speed it up to 1.5 - 2 x speed

By marc r

Jul 11, 2016

I have really appreciated this course.

By Colleen M

Mar 17, 2017

I found this course very interesting.

By aakash d

Jul 11, 2020

great course for physics enthusiasts

By Roger N P

May 29, 2016

covers a lot of ground in short time

By Jose A V B

Aug 17, 2015

Great Content! Very recommendable.

By Rajesh K T

May 4, 2020

Requires more reading matterials

By Pankaj A

Sep 15, 2020

It is good for biggners

By Tsambikos P

Oct 27, 2015

Very nice!! Thank you!!

By Brian R

Dec 10, 2015

good course

By Anik M

Mar 16, 2022

There are number of positive things about this course but...

I'm only going to say about thing I don't like about this course;

1. Slide presentation; yeah it's now a norm but in slide presentation large amount of information flashed in your screen which is hard to track; there are some adventages of slide presentation but I prefer blackboard.

2. Derivation are not shown and that might be the reason you find it boring after some weeks and I'm not satisfied with the knowledge I am getting without derivation.

By Ariella B

Aug 30, 2020

This course was very informative, but know that you definitely need to have some prior knowledge in physics. As a high school sophomore, I hadn't taken any prior physics classes and the class was extremely difficult. While I was ultimately able to complete the course and get a certificate, each week took much longer than advertised and it was very challenging. However, this class taught me about many interesting aspects of astronomy.

By Βικτωρία Π

Jun 13, 2017

Very useful and interesting course. It gives scientific answers to a lot of questions. The only drawback is that it does not offer a certificate and I believe that this is very important because it is the only one that gives this type of information about the universe.

By Pablo P

Mar 22, 2017

Awesome course! Intensive learning. I recommend a few studies of astronomy before take it.

There are some issues with the feedback of others proffesors

By Carlo

Sep 11, 2017

So much handwaving! An introductory course for student who already know what the course is about... Yes, it's wrong.

By Justin C

Aug 11, 2015

the teacher is boring. other then that its an ok class. need to explain things more.

By Alan G

Nov 11, 2021

Probably a good course but by week 2 was way above my brain power!

By BotX

Feb 19, 2016

require more efforts!

By Fred S

Feb 25, 2023

The course may be fine for engineering students and those who have a pretty advanced knowledge of Physics, but not for others. The answers to many of the questions on the quizzes and reviews were answered in subsequent lectures, rather than in ones prior to the questions. The lecturer was not very articulate, and when he corrected errors that he made in the lecture often was unclear about what he was correcting. otherwise, there was still some good information provided in the course.

By Michael R

Dec 29, 2020

Dear Professor,

You're skipping over many vitally important bits of information. For example, how exactly is stellar spectra taken. How is it performed and where are the results recorded? There is just too much information missing between the slides. Also, please try to speak more clearly -don't mumble or let your voice trail off toward the end of some of your sentences. Thanks!

By Fernando D

Mar 29, 2020

Lessons contents are incomplete and quizzes are clearly above the level of the lessons. Don't know if I'm learning anything. I quit and will look to other alternatives as I don't want to waste more time and effort on it.

By Ray G

Jan 6, 2021

No real interaction, it's like sitting on the outside of a lecturer through an open window.....

By Andy H

Aug 22, 2020

You are assumed to know Science bachelors level math. When math is lectured there is no explanation of how it operates. The lecturer even says in one lecture that you should know this from your university physics. Not taught at all and glossed over and all lectures are a bit incoherent and not precise and all over the place. This lecturer is certainly not a teacher. I thought this was graded a beginners course???

By Miguel A d P H

Jun 7, 2017

Lectures are quite interesting, but the numerical exercises are a shit there is no way to really know how to put correctly the numbers, in spyte you could obtail the correct resultin your calculator. For that reason i will not recomend to take this course. REALLY BAD!!!!

By Diego Y M H

Jul 27, 2020

En los cuestionarios, seleccionaba las respuestas correctas pero en la segunda pregunta no me contaba como buena (Aun y cuando salia la paloma verde), provocando la falta de ese punto.