You can tell that professor Tung cares about his students and cares about teaching. I feel like everything was covered well and the class felt fair. Demos were fun too. Only think I had an issue with is our final class grade was not transparent at all. Extra credit was determined by some weird formula, but we never did actually find out what we got on the final exam or from extra credit. Due to this, I did worse in the class than I anticipated. Overall would highly recommend though!

Tung is a good lecturer, but not necessarily a good professor. He didn't provide us with that many resources to be successful, and the assigned homework felt disconnected from the content that appeared on the exams. The first midterm was fine, but it went downhill after that. The second midterm had like a 15% average decrease. Tung does seem to truly love physics, and the demonstrations he does during class are very engaging. However, he tends to rush through important practice problems and the entirety of the last 2 units (which showed up as an FRQ on the final) were shoved into the last class period. Also he claims to give extra credit but it's based on this weird arbitrary scaling that he himself is in charge of deciding so I'm half convinced he didn't add any extra credit at all. My advice would be to really focus on problems he does during class and definitely pay attention in lecture, because small things he says may show up as multiple choice questions on the exam. Good luck!!

I had such high hopes coming into this class, but my expectations were certainly not met. If you are looking to actually learn physics, you may want to consider a different professor, but if an A is all your searching for; this class is for you. It is clear to me that Tung is passionate about teaching, but not so much about physics (or at least 1A). Tung tried his best to make his lectures engaging and fun, but he often went on tangents about completely irrelevant topics (like atomic bombs, "artificial gravity," and neutron stars) for a large portion of lecture and then proceeded to rush through the derivations and lessons that we actually needed to know. The slides - which he is essentially reading off of - also sometimes had mistakes.

The discussion section and assigned homework were also extremely unhelpful. My TA was amazing, and obviously very knowledgable in 1A, but she had no guidance from the professor and the example problems she gave us looked nothing like the exam problems. KUDU is also terrible, so many mistakes in the questions and textbook and also nothing like the exams, I wasted so much time trying to understand the problems, just for them to not be relevant whatsoever. I even tried to ask for help on some of the KUDU problems and neither Tung or my TA were able to explain the answer, just because the KUDU problems were blatantly wrong.

One good thing about this class is that the exams are pretty fair. There was never a time crunch and Tung even added some repeated MCQ from previous midterms onto the final. I took AP Physics C in high school and I would say this course was certainly not as in-depth or involved as the AP version, but the tradeoff is that if you don't have AP Physics C experience, you may not be learning everything you need to know for future classes with Tung.

I was honestly disappointed after reading reviews and then taking this class, as I had high hopes. We went very slow in the first few lectures which honestly made simple topics more confusing, and then caused us to rush through the harder topics at the end. Additionally, the professor often took up class time going on tangents about topics not related to exams. Kudo was really frustrating to work with for homework questions and often had mistakes, weirdly worded questions, questions that went way outside the scope of the class, and answers that were plainly wrong. I spent a lot of time focusing on Kudo questions that did not even help on exams- homework and discussion questions were not like exam questions at all. Exams were tricky, not horrible, but hard to prepare for because exam questions were unlike anything we practiced. I also went to an office hour in which the professor could not answer one of the Kudo questions and honestly just confused me more, and I was later able to solve this question very quickly so it seems he does not really know what he is assigning. My best advice would be to focus especially on what is taught in class and his class examples for exams.

At the beginning of the quarter I was happy. I continued to be happy when I found out that all the homework was due at the end of the quarter, to which you could check if you got them all right guaranteeing full points in that section. I continued to be happy taking my midterms to which I got As in both even though he did not give practice tests and said to rely on the homework to guide you to victory. All this happiness came crashing down the day I walked into the final. For some reason he thought it would be an amazing idea to build your hopes up, "Im actually doing alright in this class" I said with glee... When I tell you I have never seen half of that final material in my life- I am not joking in the slightest. Not in any notes, not in any homework, not in any discussion section, not even in the final review session. Only God knows what was going on in that mans head when he wrote it, my theory is that he was possessed because thats the only logical explanation.

Professor Tung is a really sweet and funny guy, which is why I feel bad to give him a bad review. However, his exams were very difficult, and they often recalled material that he glazed over in class. In addition, his practice problems in class were very long and complicated and used variables instead of actual numbers, making them not very applicable to learning how to actually solve equations. He gave us little to no review resources, so how well you study really just depends on what test banks you can get. He also said he'd give us extra credit but didn't give us any :(

I took the equivalent of this class in highschool and knew about 85% of the content already, I just kept making really dumb mistakes on the exams which led me to finish with an A- rather than an A. So the class overall is not too bad, the midterm and final are pretty easy and fair. His lectures are pretty boring and slow, except when he does a demonstration which is a nice change of pace. When he pulls up the onenote blackboard everyone just mentally checks out. He is great at explaining the theoretical side of the physics but in terms of actual practice, I think he lacks in that area. If someone who had no exposure to physics previously, I could definitely see someone getting confused and a bit lost when he explains the concepts. The labs are fine, a bit tedious but if your lab group doesn't do anything its pretty annoying. If you have a good/fine lab group its fine. Just take it with Tung.

I'm not sure what happened, but Tung doesn't curve that much anymore. He didn't give out that 3% extra credit a lot of other older reviews talked about. His curve is based on cosine, so the better you do on the midterms (which were so much easier than the final), you won't get any extra credit. None of the exam questions reflected the homework, though the TAs provided pretty good p sets. I didn't spend that much time studying to be very honest, but there was never good preparation for the exam questions; you will be left in the dark.

Started studying for this class a few weeks before it began due to the reviews I read (the non-COVID ones) and was worried about how his exams would go and boy was I right. Reading the COVID reviews here is very infuriating because it’s so obvious that there were other “tactics” at play when they were taking his class. I used mainly outside sources to study for this class, his in class notes were otherwise useless. It such a slap in the face that I didn’t get an A and stained my 4.0 GPA all because I missed a few multiple choice questions (where there’s no partial points given) its ridiculous to have your exam scores in the hands of knowing the detailed mechanics of circular motion even though those concepts were never discussed. I also rewrote and read his own notes in DETAIL which ended up being mostly useful but somewhat redundant. I also want to mention I had never taken physics before in my life and so he was my first introduction to it. I didn’t rly good on the first midterm and good on the second but the final was ridiculous. I wish I choose a different professor but whatever an A- is still an A (unless your a university which that’s another issue) but overall, take him if you want to have utter fear of your midterms and avoid him if you choose peace and happiness. He is extremely overrated its insane the amount of bootlicking people do here.

I’m a straight A student who puts in a lot of effort, but this class was an absolute nightmare. Professor Tung is, hands down, the worst professor I’ve ever had. He doesn’t teach he just derives formulas and shows slides that are completely useless. Over the entire semester, he only showed THREE practice problems during lectures. How are we supposed to prepare for midterms or finals with that?

The homework is on Kudu, which is no help at all, and the questions there are nothing like the exams. The exams are brutal: multiple choice and free response, but the free response questions are basically your entire grade. Make one mistake on those, and you're done, since each one is worth a third of the test.

Professor Tung mentioned he can curve grades, but even though tons of people failed, he didn’t curve at all. For the final, he brought in material that wasn’t even taught and rushed through everything else. He skipped many important concepts altogether because he didn’t have enough time to cover them. On top of that, the physics lab was completely out of sync with the lectures. The lectures were so far behind that when you went to lab, you had no idea what was happening.

To make things worse, the recordings of his lectures often took weeks to be uploaded on Bruin Learn, and sometimes they weren’t even posted before exam dates. When I asked him if he could upload them earlier, he basically said there was nothing he could do and ignored everyone.

Also, don’t be fooled by the good reviews online most of them are from students who took his class during COVID and cheated their way through. It’s insane that UCLA pays this guy when YouTube is free and does a much better job of teaching. If you’re thinking of taking his class, don’t. Save yourself the headache and find someone who actually teaches.