Student Comments:
About the Instructor: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Mr. V was by far the best professor I have ever had at BU. I wish he taught regularly through the school year. He
is always enthusiastic, explains topics well, and has great models. I don’t think any other science teacher at BU
can match up to him. Great demos. Helpful in office hours. Improve: When doing problems in class, work was all over the place and
not clear—had to jump pages to find work.
Fantastic instructor. My favorite science professor I’ve ever had. Amazing at making even the most difficult or boring subjects interesting and fun. Absolutely hilarious. Won’t take physics if not with him. Improve: Just neater
handwriting.
Very good at explaining concepts. Friendly, fun, and interesting lecturer. Love the demos. Improve: Better handwriting and clearer pronunciation. I love Professor Voroshilov. His dry humor is a perfect cherry on top of this course. Presentations are organized. Enthusiastic about physics. Funny. Improve: Write clearer. Make sure students know what question you are
asking. Weirdly funny. Teaches clearly. Russian. Class got boring. Loved his in-class experiments. Improve: Encourage more participation. Organized slideshows and content. Many applicable demonstrations done in class. Office hours are useful and
convenient. Improve: A bit fast sometimes.
He is able to present a lot of questions that are likely to be present on the exam and he goes over it well. Improve: He just needs to speak a little louder sometimes. Very punctual and always uses the class time wisely. A very knowledgeable professor and makes learning
physics fun. Improve: Go a little slower on slides or finish some problems. Presentation of lecture material is very good. Humor keeps me interested. Mr. V is a great professor. Very enthusiastic about physics, which keeps students engaged. Demonstrations are
helpful. Improve: Sometimes handwriting is difficult to understand, but it is not detrimental. Truly helped during office hours. Improve: Go a little slower when doing examples. Awesome. Love the demonstrations. Improve: Try to improve handwriting (please). Provides great experiments and makes an intensive class enjoyable. Improve: Clearer writing and should spend
time finishing a problem that he has started rather than having us finish at home. I liked that he would randomly crack jokes here and there so subtly that sometimes the class or at least all of the
class didn’t catch it. Improve: There were sometimes when he wouldn’t solve out a problem till the very end and instead talks about it. It’s hard to follow when the steps aren’t clear either.
Very helpful.
Strong: Use of slides and good knowledge of the course. Improve: Handwriting is horrendous and it’s hard to
understand the notes on the slides.
Teaching is clear and concise. Examples on lecture slides are for homework. Demonstrations are cool and help cement concepts. Improve: Sometimes handwriting is a little hard to read. Great in extra help, very good teacher. Improve: There can be a language barrier at times but that is unavoidable. Good demonstrations and fair exams. Improve: Handwriting and clarity of answers. Strong: Lots of demonstrations and humor. I really enjoy his humor and enthusiasm. I like that he makes exams off of homework questions, helps a lot. Also,
very fair grader. Improve: Needs to write a bit better. Very funny and passionate about teaching. Improve: More problems in class that are relevant to the homework.
He’s very enthusiastic, which I like. Improve: There are many typo’s in the lecture slides and lab handouts.
Very effective at explaining concepts.
He is a master. He knows his materials. He wants to help. That’s all I can expect from a teacher. He is great.
Sometimes I have a hard time understanding him. The material in class is covered so quickly I can rarely understand it in class. His writing is not very clear. Improve: Clearer writing. Take more time with problems.
Did a very good job in teaching the material. Improve: Speak more clearly, and use neater handwriting. Engaging and encourages participation. Improve: Needs to write clearer (especially when solving equations), and go slower.
Always enthusiastic and uses demonstrations as explanations, which is helpful. Improve: Sometimes the lectures seem a little rushed and get confusing. He tends to challenge us by truly assessing which of my aspects are flawed. Improve: Please give us extra credit.
He’s great. One of the best instructors I’ve had at BU.
Was slow and thorough with problems. Improve: Neater handwriting. He really makes the class enjoyable. Improve: Clearer writing. Very enthusiastic and approachable. Genuinely cares about his students. Best professor at BU. Improve: Write
more clearly on board.
Improve: Goes a little bit quickly sometimes—tough with accent.
Cool experiments. Improve: Accent and handwriting.
Very smart and very funny. Hard physics but Val made the experience more enjoyable. Improve: He’s great. No
need to change.
He uses lots of demonstrations and examples. Very entertaining and enthusiastic. Improve: Please attempt to
write neater—please.
Great interest in students. Improve: Could be clearer in writing and organizing slides. Sometimes the notes are not clear and skip something. Great enthusiasm, demonstrations. Improve: Solve through the problem and give a number as an answer. Great teaching style, and encourages thinking. Improve: Volume.
Very good at teaching, clear and knows how to explain things. Improve: More jokes—you’re very funny.
Russian spy. Knows his stuff. Very helpful in office hours. Improve: English. Great professor and very enthusiastic. Improve: Slow down a little. Strong: Clear explanations, very good lecturer, nice. Good at engaging and presenting experiments.
About the Course: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Good models, liked WebAssign, and liked the lecture room. Improve: Meeting five times a week is a little tiring.
Hard class made somewhat easier or more manageable because of Mr. V. Improve: Lab is the worst part of this
course—long, confusing, and not helpful for exams.
Very easy to understand and grasp concepts (even at the faster pace). Improve: Shorter labs (deriving formulas is long, boring, and in my opinion, unnecessary).
Organized, well thought out, and easy to think of.
Improve: Lab was weak—did not understand its purpose most times. I liked the daily lectures.
Straightforward course. Improve: So hard to get an A.
Good pace and good amount of time introducing every topic. Improve: Labs—too long and sometimes not very
useful. Offer course that meets four days a week. Challenging course. Covers all necessary topics. Improve: Lab time should be reduced. Learn a lot in a very short time, but definitely able to master material and be comfortable in physics. Lectures were interesting, exams were decent, and homework helped a lot. Improve: Felt the labs were more
challenging then needed and provided me with little improvement on the course material. Overall, they didn’t
really help me with the course. Summer course is fast paced, but worth taking with Mr. V. Super easy.
Provides lots of office hours to learn. Classes are provided online for review purposes.
It’s challenging but not anything impossible.
Labs are too long and sometimes we are expected to do labs before we learn the material in class. Tests are extremely fair. Homework and textbook are very helpful. Improve: The tests are very close to the homework and I feel the course may benefit from changing this. I felt
like I needed more of a challenge. Straightforward schedule. Improve: Number of hours, discussion section, and shorter labs. Fun and challenging. Strong: Exams are similar to homework. Improve: Labs are not interesting. He explains things clearly and labs are helpful. Improve: Labs are too long. Interesting. Improve: The labs are too long, and the time to take his tests is too short. I thought the tests were extremely fair. I liked the problems taught and I thought the material on the test was
covered in class. Improve: Not having new material introduced the day before the test. Strong: Fast paced. Improve: Office hours conflicting with lab sections is a problem. Physics is fun due to this class. Improve: Please, more make-up work.
Exams weren’t cumulative, but needed to know previous material in order to do well.
Covers essentials. Very good. Not difficult for someone not good at math. I love the grading. It helps me focus on what is most important about the class: the exams. Improve: Neater
notes and less stressful labs. Very good use of experiments. Teaches what needs to be known in a clear/understanding manner. Improve: Learn material faster (by one day
so we can have review).
Improve: Questions are sometimes confusing. Online book doesn’t help much.
Improve: Fast pace. Clear and interesting.
Improve: Suggest a discussion and shorter labs—TFs in lab essentially teach a discussion in addition to the lab,
seems like a waste of time.