William Hetherington - Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Professor: William Hetherington

Department: Physics

College: Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CHEM480
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I googled this professor 26 years after I took his class at the University of Arizona in Tucson (Chemistry 480; Physical chemistry). He was the WORST professor I've ever had. EVER--except for his colleage J. Pemberton. I look at these comments, from Oregon, 26 years later--nothing has changed. He should be dismissed from academics.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PHY411
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Lectures are near incomprehensible. Labs are often performed before the material is lectured on. Handouts and practice exams have mistakes in them. Midterm was twice as long as time allowed; nobody finished, average was around 50%. Barely used book. HOWEVER, English IS his first language, and he is available after class for questions sometimes.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PHY213
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Useless lectures, I went to 3 felt less intelligent after 10 minutes and left. World class brutal tests! I've fumbled through Advanced Calculus 300 series and his midterms are the toughest I've seen! We all failed apparently dont know how you can grade a 40% avg. test, some people failed worse than others? Physics and Chemistry are lacking at OSU.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PH213
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

classes are a complete waste of time. exams average 30-40%. completely unrealistic expectations in grading. Labs cover material 3-4 chapters ahead and do not synchronize with lectures. this is your warning not take this class from this guy.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PH212
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very unclear and boring lectures. He wastes a good portion of class time explaining extraneous stuff not really relevant to class, then gets upset when we get bored and leave. Assigns homework ahead of lectures and expects you to know how to do them from reading the text book. He didn't write the practice midterms and the real midterms are nothing like it and they're very hard. Of 200+ students, class avg on the first midterm was 40%.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PHYS212
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

lectures are very boring and complicated; sometimes he does sample problems or derives formulas, you don't know. homework isn't mandatory, but it doesn't matter since it none of it shows up on the exams. exams are difficult, very different from sample exams. class is curved around a c+, ridiculously low where 3 exams determine EVERYTHING.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PH212
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The guy has his own agenda. Gives demonstrations that waste class time and do not help.Goes off on extreme tangents. Does not bother with the text. Would definately take this sequence from Bannon instead.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PHY211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PH211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This class was hard to stay awake in. The examples are bogus; as are the problems he assigns and teaches in class. The midterm is insane. I am actually one of the survivors as half of the class seems to have already dropped.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PH211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Tries to do problems, does them wrong. Does not explain the material. His homework do not cover what was covered in class. B's in the 55/100 range. It was horrible!!! I noticed the pre-labs suck here and have nothing to do with the class; expect to be stuck after class to do "redo"s for your pre-labs. Hey, and i am smart guy, (3.43 gpa).

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PH211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Only halfway through this one, but so far hes made physics horribly uninteresting and also the tests are super unpredictable..

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PH313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This was an outstanding course, taught by a great professor. It was very difficult and I would not have wanted to tackle it without already having a background in physics and chem. It needs to be an alternative physics sequence to allow adequate time to lay the foundation for the really interesting stuff.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PH411PH412
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Hetherington is obviously very interested and involved in the subject, but seems to forget what he has and hasn't taught sometimes. Testing is completely unpredictable; tests range from moderate to ridiculous difficulty and their impact on grades may be changed drastically in the middle of the course. Expect to work much more than you learn.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PH411412
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

William Heatherington is poorly organized, but he knows his stuff. His problem is that he doesn't communicate everything he needs to for you to understand the material and the class. The labs force you to spend extra time when you're only scheduled for a certain amount, and nothing is ever really explained to you. Class = Trial and error.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PH411
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dificult professor. Tries to cram a bunch of material in without explaining it in enough detail. Expects you to already have an understanding of electronics before taking this class.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PH313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

IF you're taking energy alternatives, by all means take it with another Prof.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PH411
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

he can't lecture worth a damn. he knows his stuff but is unable to communicate in any way.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: PH411
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not a good lecturer, and not very organized, and that gets very annoying. However, he's very friendly, entusiastic about science in general and very knowledgable in many areas. Energy Alternatives is a great Bac Core class, 411/412 were too unorganized.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PH412
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Don't hate on Dr. H!!!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PH411
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Horrible lectures. His voice trails off when he is getting to his main point. He never makes a class announcement and hopes people spread the word (even for our midterm.) He made our 3 credit class much harder than paradigms and 314 combined.