Forget the previous negative reviews, 5A is the equivalence of ap physics 1 and his workload is definitely manageable. In terms of the online weekly modules, he ended up giving everyone full credit but I honestly suggest you do them. Midterms are only 4 questions. To be fair, he outlines a list of concepts that will be tested, and the test questions on the real tests resembles the practice tests. I also had a wonderful TA that was giving office hours on sundays. Lab component of 5A should be easy. Show up to lab, don't disappoint your lab partners, submit assignment on-time.

Yes, this professor is as bad as the reviews say he is. First of all, he doesn't even attempt to solve the example problems, he'll simply have slides up that on the board that are just overall very unorganized and will say something like "the answer is ___ because ____" very vaguely. With a topic like physics, a powerpoint isn't helpful at all when trying to learn, we need to actually see the problems done step by step. The exams are 4 questions long, but have multiple parts each so it's more like 12 problems that you need to solve by hand in 50 minutes. The exam averages were about a 60% for both midterm 1 and 2. Oh and another thing, his accent makes it even harder to understand what's going on, I realize this isn't something he can control but it's honestly still a bit frustrating. Lecture was usually about more than half empty because people just didn't bother showing up since you'll probably leave more confused than you were when you walked in. The professor isn't necessarily a bad person, he seems like a nice man, but respectfully, he should not be teaching at a university that's supposed to be the top public university in the country. Discussion sections aren't mandatory but I attended anyways just so I can have at least a little bit of an understanding of the material. They do help a little because the TA's seem to actually know how to teach a college class better than the professor, but there's only so much material they can cover in just an hour.