Professor Huang was honestly an extremely helpful professor. Granted, his accent made it hard to understand him sometimes, but he really did put a lot of effort into ensuring that his students had a good grasp on the class materials. He assigned weekly homeworks and quizzes online which counted for 15% of our grade. Towards the end of the class he informed us that, since he recognized how hard we were working, he would give us all 100% in all the homeworks and quizzes. He also gave everyone who got above a 90% in the final exam at least an A-, regardless of their midterm and lab grades. He is one of the few professors I have met who truly want their students to succeed. He provided us with the exact topics we would get in both midterms and told us beforehand that the final exam would consist of several repeat questions from the lecture slides and the previous midterms. As long as you went to lecture and paid attention to his hints about the exams, it's pretty easy to pass this class.

idk why people hate on him so much tbh, I think this class is pretty fair in that the score you get reflects the work you put in. yes, he has an accent, but he records all his lectures and Bruin Media has captions you can turn on. I found that his explanations were clear and easy to understand. he does his best and he's always ready to explain things further if you ask him for help. sometimes he'll even bring out a funny contraption mid lecture
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mainly, to do well in this course, you need to do all the discussion session problems and ESPECIALLY the sample tests he gives out. they're pretty similar to the actual tests: sometimes he'll tweak the situation, but at the end of the day the concepts are the same. a huge chunk of the points comes from partial credit, so as long as you semi-know what you're doing, you'll score just fine. I remember for the first midterm I couldn't even get to the final answer on one of the problems, but the work I put down still scored me basically full points for that question. don't push studying to the last minute, you need to do as many problems as possible. 1st midterm i felt my life flash before my eyes because I didn't practice enough. ended out with an 82 for the 1st and 96 for the 2nd, I'll update my final score when i get it
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I will say that if you've never taken a physics class before, this is probably more challenging, especially if you don't know trig. I did take AP Physics 1 but I forgot everything LMAOO >> honestly, his slides say everything you need, and most other things you can puzzle out by looking at the answer key and thinking about the steps they took. for homework, he gave us full credit as long as you finished it all before the end of the quarter. the questions weren't that similar to the exam, but it was good practice for thinking about the concepts.
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labs were a joke they're super easy. I'm pretty sure prelabs you get full credit for completion, and during lab just ask the TA/LAs for help and you'll get full pts!! although my group members did jack so I ended up finishing all the work </33 whatever man

Dude has a very harsh accent and isn't engaging at all. Nice guy but a crappy professor. Midterm averages were very low, which I believe was because he wasn't an effective communicator. Lectures had bad attendance. I wouldnt recommend this guy but wouldn't say it was insanely difficult material. I just was uninspired by the guy. Not worth the tuition dollars to hear him lecture.

Absolutely not. I saw the reviews saying that it wouldn't be as bad as it seemed, but it was quite literally the trenches. When I fought tooth and nail for a 5A spot in September when seats were gone in minutes, I told myself maybe this professor wouldn't be bad. Fast forward in December, I think he was the worst professor I've ever had here actually.

Pros
- He ends up giving full credit to everyone for homework and quizzes (a combined total of 10% of your grade! everything else depends on lab and his terrible exams!)

Cons
- His lectures are unclear. Don't bother going to them (I went every time, and I still didn't retain information)
- On BOTH midterms, he messed up on one of the problems (mind you, there's literally only 4 questions worth 25 points each) and changed the instructions HALFWAY through the exam. On the first midterm, he ended up curving 2/3s of that question, but on the second midterm, he did not. Granted, averages for midterm 2 were better (82) compared to midterm 1 (around 67), but then he decided to give us that final
- I'm telling you this man is not real because he is a pathological liar. If you hear the words "river problem" or "banked curve", just be aware he will not stay true to what he says will be on the exam. - He gave diagrams on the Week 10 slides as "what we'll see on the final", but we quite literally did not see 50% of them on the final. Like yes, they had the same topic, but they were the most random problems ever that had no correlation to the examples he told us to study.
- He says his tests are easy, but they never match with the homework or the examples he shows in class or the old exams he posts from previous quarters aside from 1-2 problems
- He teaches momentum during Week 8 (when the Physics Department literally says "skip Momentum") and combines it with energy concepts, so be warned
- He basically has a bell curve distribution for the class, so you're technically competing against other people for your grade (there's cutoffs, but these are based on rank)

The only saving grace of this class was the TA and LA. Save yourself from this class and if you are forced to take him because there's no more 5A spots, I wish you the best of luck.

Huang is like the Scerri of Physics. If you've taken a class with Scerri, you’ll understand what I mean. Both have thick accents and tend to read directly from their slides without providing explanations on how to solve problems. They are both extremely smart researchers, but their teaching methods are terribleee. It’s often more effective to learn from textbooks and YouTube videos than from their lectures, yet they still expect you to show up to lectures.

I entered Huang's class with no prior physics background and hadn't taken AP Physics, so I found the course to be an uphill battle. One positive aspect of Huang's approach is that he encourages learning by allowing students to make mistakes on quizzes and homework, offering credit just for completion. However, the exams are very difficult, given the course’s demanding nature. A friend of mine, who has taken two AP Physics classes, struggles with the material and says it is harder than the AP exam itself.

I genuinely wanted to give physics a fair chance and hoped I wouldn’t dislike it, but the way the course was structured made me feel as though I didn’t understand anything at all, which made me so frustrated. After our class scored 60% on the first midterm, Huang criticized us for not trying hard enough, which was discouraging.

My tips for succeeding in this class include watching YouTube videos, particularly those from Physics Ninja, and completing as many practice problems as you can. Additionally, keep in mind that he only allows a one-sided cheat sheet for exams, so make sure to load it up with possible scenarios.

Overall, I wouldn't recommend this professor. If possible, try to take the course with someone else. Even he admits that he's not the easiest physics professor to have. It seems his intention is to create a weeder class for pre-med students, which made me dislike my experience in this course. He believes that the challenging nature of his class will help prepare us better for our future careers in medicine, but for me, it just made me hate my life.

While I understand that exams are meant to test our knowledge of physics concepts, I wish I had gained more from the lectures. It would have been helpful to have exams that were a bit easier to manage, as the tough-love approach he seems to take left me feeling frustrated.

Huang is absolutely awful. He does not explain concepts in any capacity, no example problems are given in class, and during lecture you can barely understand what he is saying. You will learn nothing in his class.

Classes are not mandatory to attend and are recorded.

The labs in this class are incredibly boring but it was not hard to do well on the lab assignments, especially if you went to office hours, in which case you could get feedback on the post-lab and basically get spoon fed a 100%. The only work in this class besides the exams are a single weekly homework assignment and weekly quiz that can easily take less than 2 hours to complete in one sitting. The exams in this class are very much ripped from the textbook, and you can make a cheat sheet so there isn't a real problem with doing well.

ok ok ok, I get it. Huang, if you really depend on learning through lecture or some sort of audio cues, is absolutely terrible. But, if you're able to just push yourself to go through the slides and do the online homework, He's really not that bad. I literally joined two weeks late because of people dropping last second, and playing catchup was hard. But the tips he gives about the exam are accurate. listen to what he says in lecture about what topics he's gonna cover because those are probably super accurate. However, the questions could be really hard, so just put reference questions on your cheat sheets. I got an A on the first midterm, C on the second midterm, and an A on the final. I think those grades were done with a lot of procrastination and last minute cramming, but it worked out. I'm also a freshman if that helps give any context. Dude is really sincerely nice and cares about your learning. Don't worry about finishing the homework and quizzes on time because he'll give you full credit anyways. Also, he gave a really big tip about the final in how it was super similar to practice exams, so make sure to load your cheat sheet. A lot of past questions are super similar to the exams he gives. He's not as bad as everyone says. If you don't get Tung or some other "good" professor, it's really not the end of the world

If you want to do really well in a class, then maybe don't take it with Huang; however, I didn't find his class to be that bad. Granted, I never went to any lectures and I didn't care to do that well in the class (passing is just fine). A lot of students are scared of taking Huang because of these reviews, but I feel like he's equally as bad as any other lower division course professor at this school. Yes, it sucks, but there's not much you can do because you HAVE to take these courses. I actually found Huang to be very sweet despite is somewhat lack of an ability to teach. I'm saying this as a student who SHOULD NOT HAVE PASSED. I got a 43% on my first midterm and a 3% on my second midterm. I skipped a pre-lab and lab I think. I don't know how, but I pulled through on my final. If I can pass with a C+, I think you'll be just fine.

I should've listened when everyone around me told me to wait another quarter instead of taking it with this professor. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU'VE NEVER TAKEN PHYSICS BEFORE! Professor Huang sucks at explaining things as the other reviews have stated. He mainly goes over examples in class but what good are examples if he doesn't provide a foundation to build upon.

He did end up giving us 100% is homework and quizzes. Here is the breakdown for my quarter:
Homework: 5 point (5%)
Weekly quizzes: 5 points (5%)
Midterm 1: 15 point (15%)
Midterm 2: 15 points (15%)
Lab: 15 points (15%)
Final: 45 points (45%)

Resources I used (even though I only a B)
- YOUTUBE (it's seriously gonna be your best friend)
I specifically recommend the you tube channel "physics ninja" because a lot of his pulley problems are similar to this.
- Online resources
I would just search up example problems relating to the topic and try to do those.

He does provide sample exams but he will the change the question. For example a sample exam asked about magnitude of friction forces and their acceleration. On the actual test he might have a similar problem but he'll ask about something else. He did allow 1 sheet of paper on both mid terms (cheat sheet, front and back) and 2 sheets for the final.

I hate this professor with a passion because it's so hard to understand him and he doesn't teach.