I've found that Cyber Physical courses have far less information shared online, so I'm doing my part to correct that. Here is my review of this course:
This is a course about how power systems operate and the math that defines them. Coming into this, you should refresh your knowledge of complex math, and light trigonometry. Basic calculus would be helpful, but most of that is handled in Matlab, which the TA will guide you through. Matlab is free for GT students, make sure you have it downloaded and installed prior to starting.
It appears this course is offered in the Spring at a 'lighter' difficulty for physical track cyber students, compared to the Fall offering for EE students. However, I do not have access to the Fall curriculum to compare.
The recorded lectures explain how the grid operates, from generation through transmission and distribution. Bluntly, the recorded lectures are extremely dry and hard to follow, and you will never be tested on any of the information. However, it is extremely valuable information from a forefront researcher.
The book is rough, and hard to follow. Multiple math steps are skipped in several examples. I suspect the professor wrote it to give students a free book and avoid a lot of the subscription scams that textbooks are prone to. I admire this, but I ended up buying the textbook used in the Fall-EE offering to supplement (Power Systems Analysis and Design by Glover, Sarma, and Overbye). The only problem is that book does not cover state estimation at all, which is a major part of this course, especially in the second half.
The assignments are separated into 8 light assignments, combined worth 20% and 2 larger group projects worth 30%. The TA goes over expectations and explains the problems in the weekly office hours, which I found to be more like a traditional lab. The projects are group projects where you're expected to split up tasks for a final program, but you each write your own reports. My suggestion is that you complete the program individually and use your group as a sounding board to bounce ideas against. I've found that in the Physical track most of us are either EEs who want to get better at Cyber, or Cyber people who want to better understand the Electrical and Instrumentation. Hopefully your group will have representation from the EEs because they have a huge advantage in this course.
Grading is pretty light, in my opinion. However, make sure you're watching the office hours, and communicating your struggles to the TA early. The TA I had in Spring of 26 was extremely helpful.
I'm a cyber guy who entered the cyber physical world, I ended up averaging about 10 hours a week on this course, and found the first half pretty easy, and the second half pretty difficult.