Professor
David Bauer
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2025 - I've seen a lot of mixed reviews for Dr. Bauer, but I absolutely loved having him as my first physics professor at UCLA. I haven't taken physics since high school and was really nervous coming in, but he made it very digestible and easy to understand. Some call him passive aggressive, but I'd call him blunt more than anything, which I appreciated a lot. I'd go to his office hours every week to ask questions and get clarification and he'd straight up tell me "No, that's not correct" which I appreciated, so I wouldn't make the same mistakes on exams. We had three midterms ... which was a lot (exam basically every 2 weeks), but I also appreciated that I had more time to practice concepts before the final. Office hours are so important to go to if you're feeling nervous about physics because you'll find likeminded students (which I found to be the most helpful because we studied outside of class/office hours together). Another thing about Dr. Bauer is that he's VERYYYYYY lenient with partial credit. You can do all the right steps and get an atrociously wrong answer and yet somehow you only get half a point docked. He cares much more about your conceptual understanding than a numerical answer. Overall, would totally take him again!!
Fall 2025 - I've seen a lot of mixed reviews for Dr. Bauer, but I absolutely loved having him as my first physics professor at UCLA. I haven't taken physics since high school and was really nervous coming in, but he made it very digestible and easy to understand. Some call him passive aggressive, but I'd call him blunt more than anything, which I appreciated a lot. I'd go to his office hours every week to ask questions and get clarification and he'd straight up tell me "No, that's not correct" which I appreciated, so I wouldn't make the same mistakes on exams. We had three midterms ... which was a lot (exam basically every 2 weeks), but I also appreciated that I had more time to practice concepts before the final. Office hours are so important to go to if you're feeling nervous about physics because you'll find likeminded students (which I found to be the most helpful because we studied outside of class/office hours together). Another thing about Dr. Bauer is that he's VERYYYYYY lenient with partial credit. You can do all the right steps and get an atrociously wrong answer and yet somehow you only get half a point docked. He cares much more about your conceptual understanding than a numerical answer. Overall, would totally take him again!!
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