Nathan Lowhorn

School: Suffolk University
Department: Physics
Location: Boston, MA
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Dr. Lowhorn is one of the best professors I've ever had. He explains very confusing subjects very well and is very precise in answering questions. The tests aren't easy, but if you study the homework and the sample problems you will do fine. I really enjoyed him as a professor and he has a great sense of humor. Highly suggest taking him.
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Pros: I had Dr. Lowhorn for my ASTR lab.
He was a great help and was always there to answer questions.
The labs are SUPER easy. You can drop your 2 or 3 lowest and usually leave after an hour. They are very basic. You will have 3 night labs where you actually go out and observe the starts. They are fun though.
Take him if you can for lab. You do need the Astronomy lab book. It's not expensive though.
Cons: None.
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Pros: - Great guy
- Funny
- Solid teacher
Cons: - None
Although it looks like a lot of people reviewing this professor have had bad experiences, don't be fooled - Dr. Lowhorn is an amazing teacher and a great person. He breaks down each problem into small steps to make it clear. He is fairly lenient on grading, and as long as you attend each class and give your best effort, you can get an A in the course.
You will struggle if you don't have a strong background in algebra, as this is an "Algebra-based" physics course. You will NOT need to know any calculus, but you will frequently use trigonometry, so I wouldn't recommend this course with ANY professor if you don't understand those two concepts already.
I just had Lowhorn for the lab portion of the class - I had Nat Smith for the lecture. My lab met twice a week, and we had a quiz every class period - they are fairly easy, however, and only take about a minute to complete. They are based on the reading that is assigned, so if you don't read any of the textbook, you may not do as well in the quizzes. Fortunately, these quizzes were only about 5% of the total grade, so you can afford to do badly. Furthermore, you will have to do a midterm project (10% of your grade) and a final project (15% of your grade) - both of which will take a considerable amount of time to complete. Just be prepared to set some extra time aside for those projects at the middle and end of the semester and you should be fine. You have to present each project to the whole lab class with your group, and you will be graded on your presentation. I got an A on both projects, however, so don't be intimidated! Just work hard and prepare and you should be fine. Finally, 20% of your grade will be from weekly lab experiments you'll have to perform with your group. You just write up a report in a lab notebook and turn it in each week - I think I got around a 95% on these experiments. They are pretty straightforward, and you got a 100% on 4 or 5 of them as long as you signed an attendance sheet for being at that class period! Attendance isn't regularly taken, but you will get 0's on the lab experiments if you aren't there to turn it in.
Lowhorn is a quirky, funny guy. I would definitely recommend him for your lab professor in the course!
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Pros: He is pretty cool. tries to keep class entertaining.
Lowhorn is great, my only complaint is in the layout of the course.The labs get so far ahead of the lecture.
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Pros: Really funny, entertaining, answers questions clearly, makes class engaging and fun
Cons: None
One of my favorite teachers I have had so far
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Pros: Dr. Lowhorn is one of the best professors I've had at MTSU. He can take complex material and break it down so it's easy to understand. I always looked forward to coming to class. His lectures are easy to follow and there's never a dull moment thanks to his humor and antics (he has something funny to say about every little thing).
The class is trigonometry based, but if you have a good background in geometry and know the trig functions (sine, cosine, tan), the Pythagorean Theorem, and how to find angles in right triangles, you'll do fine. You do, of course, need a strong background in algebra since nearly all of the problems you do in this class are calculated by using equations.
The textbook is free on D2L (written by Dr. Montemayor) and it is excellent and easy to understand. At the end of each chapter, there's practice problems. Doing the warm ups and "some standards" problems are great practice for the test. Don't do the "So you think you're pretty good..." problems if you don't have time, I would always do them and they were never on the tests (they're great practice, however).
The exams consist of 30% from multiple choice and 70% from write out problems. The multiple choice consisted mainly of fundamentals that were covered in lecture, but some of it also consisted of content from the lab problems. The write-outs consisted of problems from the "some standards" portion of the exercises in the text book. He also gives sample tests for you to practice with. Do them! The content on the actual tests differ from the content of the sample tests, but they're still great practice.
The final exam was 60% multiple choice and 40% write out.
There are no projects required during the summer sessions.
Overall, this has been one of my favorite classes I've taken at MTSU so far thanks to Dr. Lowhorn. I feel like a learned A LOT and enjoyed it greatly. I would love to take another physics class with him.
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Pros: Class is easy, Mr. Lowhorn is helpful when he's in the room..
Cons: 2 Nightlabs are a pain but are easy and over quickly.
Go to each class, do the work, leave when you're done. I learned a lot, it's a really easy class.
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Really nice guy, made the class easy and fool-proof. Labs were as short as he could make them. He was really flexible.
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Cons: This guy is just a worthless teacher. He is just a collector of a paycheck
This class isn't extremely hard, but if you don't understand something and you ask him, he will act like you are disturbing him by asking him.
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Pros: hilarious
loves science
Cons: can't really think of any
not quite Bill Nye?
This guy is awesome. He has an interesting sense of humor. I had him for the lab portion of Astronomy, which meant he didn't interact with our class as much as if we were in the lecture portion. The only tricky part are the quizzes, which occur at the onset of every meeting. If you read over the lab notebook entry for that particular day you should be fine.
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Lowhorn was a great lab professor. He really made lab enjoyable. He gave a quiz every class over what we would do in lab that day. It was only 5 questions and it was super easy. I would read over the lab manual 5 mins before the quiz and make 100s. He is really funny and makes class easy. Take him for an easy A.
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I'm just here to counteract that idiotic, pathetic, ignorant, and childish rating at the bottom. That is pure misrepresentation. This is COLLEGE fool. It's Physics, of course you have to know Algebra and some Trigonometry. You do not need to know any Calculus. "Non"-Calculus-Based Physics. All of the things you complained about are things you are expected to do in most college classes.
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Pros: makes class time fun. willing to help explain concepts. great sense of humor
a joy to take physics with.
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Pros: Easy.
Cons: Quizzes every week
Pretty simple class. He gives a quiz each week before the lab starts. If you read over the lab before hand you will ace it. He helps with any question. Nice guy
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just read the lab manual before class and youll breeze through the quizzes he gives at the beginning of class before you actually do a lab on the subject.
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Pros: Explains Material Clearly
Goes over basically everything
Answers any questions
Cons: None
Dr. Lowhorn goes over basically everything you will need to do the activities and practice problems, which you will have almost every class (he practically does every step for you and you just have to translate it over to the practice problem assigned to your particular group). There is no extra credit or curves but if you go and pay attention you shouldn't have much trouble doing well in the class. Everything is weighted pretty evenly so if tests aren't your thing you can still do pretty decently if you apply yourself to everything else. At first I thought the idea of two labs a week for one class would be horrible, but it turns out that it works very well for physics and you learn a lot. I highly recommend Dr. Lowhorn.
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Pros: Lowhorn is an awesome lab teacher! He makes his class very fun and i took him at night....it is never a dull moment with him!
Cons: he grades the two projects a little hard...
Overall take him
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I personally really like Dr. Lowhorn. Here I'm just reviewing the lab portion of the class, I had Montemayer for the lecture part. Lab is a large part of Physics. We met twice a week, so I saw a lot of Dr. Lowhorn. He's a really laid back guy and pretty lenient when it comes to grading of the activities. He's really funny too and tries to explain things as best as he can. He's good at making the concepts clear and relating them to real life. Overall, I would definitely recommend him as a lab professor for Physics. He knows his stuff!
Homework: Online hw problems, but none were taken up. Other than that we just had the activities, which sometimes required outside work to finish them up. That was rare though.
Textbook: You need the lab manual to complete the activities, as with most lab classes.
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I personally really like Dr. Lowhorn. Here I'm just reviewing the lab portion of the class, I had Montemayer for the lecture part. Lab is a large part of Physics. We met twice a week, so I saw a lot of Dr. Lowhorn. He's a really laid back guy and pretty lenient when it comes to grading of the activities. He's really funny too and tries to explain things as best as he can. He's good at making the concepts clear and relating them to real life. Overall, I would definitely recommend him as a lab professor for Physics. He knows his stuff!
Homework: Online hw problems, but none were taken up. Other than that we just had the activities, which sometimes required outside work to finish them up. That was rare though.
Textbook: You need the lab manual to complete the activities, as with most lab classes.
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He was great. He would explain everything beforehand and the lab was a breeze from there. He would always help you if you got stuck. TAKE HIM!!
Textbook: It's just your lab manual.

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