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Huan Huang

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Easiness 2.2 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 2.9 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 2.7 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 2.8 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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April 3, 2023
Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: A-

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.

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PHYSICS 18L
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 26, 2022
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A

Professor Huan was a solid professor. The class was mostly run by the TA's however and my TA's were both great.

For my quarter there was a lab a week for 10 weeks. The first two weeks were online and just mostly about using python for data analysis. The rest of the labs were in-person, and were very enjoyable.

This class had 7 graded formal reports.

I thought that the grading of the reports were generally very fair. The reports didn't need to be very long either, anywhere from 3-5 pages was a good length. Depending on your TA the grading could be either good or bad, but for my case it was good.

The reports are due by the end of the quarter. My advice would be to do 1 report a week though. If you let the reports pile up then you will be struggling to complete them at the end of the quarter which may impact final exam studying.

Some of the labs that were done include the photoelectric effect, building radios, measuring the e/m ratio, and superconductivity. The labs were engaging and fun.

The only major complaint I had was with the lab manual. Some of the labs were structured very clearly, however some, if not most, were structured in a confusing manner. I found myself having to ask the TA's a lot of questions to clarify what to actually do in the labs. Also, it was kind of hard to understand Huan in the zoom sessions, mostly due to his mic quality.

Overall Huan was a good professor and structured this lab class fairly. I would take Huan again.

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April 24, 2023
Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: N/A

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.

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Dec. 16, 2023
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A-

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.

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June 25, 2023
Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A

ignore the negative reviews, this class is the equivalence of ap physics 1. Midterms are 4 questions and finals are 10. To be fair, he outlines a list of concepts/questions that will be on the midterm and finals. That means you are either not paying attention in class or not attempting to get help, so stop blaming the professor's teaching ability... Weekly homework: he ended up giving everyone full credit regardless but I honestly suggesting doing them and asking for help. For labs, as long as you show up to class, complete projects on-time and don't mess your partners up, should also be a perfect score.

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Jan. 6, 2024
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: B+

Rather than add to all the negative reviews, I will write what tactics I found most helpful to pass his class:

1) youtube practice problems based on class content for each test and the professor's practice problems (do these for hours and you will be prepared as possible for the tests, they're truly the only way I could prepare for the tests)
2) don't worry to much about homework or quizzes, he ends up giving everyone 100%. The homework is a little helpful but literally the quizzes aren't relevant
3) don't copy down practice problems on your cheat sheet, actually learn them through youtube because his problems are slightly different
4) attend lecture because he will emphasize specific concepts that will be on the test. However, don't expect to learn anything from them. THIS IS VERY MUCH A CLASS WHERE YOU WILL BE TEACHING YOURSELF

*also, the fact that his exams are all free response is actually very helpful. if you don't know how to solve it, writing down equations that you think might apply and your best guess will usually get you partial credit

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Dec. 10, 2023
Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A

Huang has a lot of negative reviews, just because his lectures are unclear and the grading scheme does make it such that the average is curved to a B- per departmental policy. HOWEVER, I would say that if you take 5A with him, it's not the end of the world at all. Come into the class ready to take advantage of TAs/LAs for support in clarifying content since his lectures/office hours are not the clearest due to his strong accent. His exams are honestly fair and are very similar to examples in lecture/discussions– the hard part is finishing on time since they're administered during the 50min lecture window. This was the real challenge of this class: I ran out of time on both midterms, scoring about a 70% on both. But, his final does not take the full 3 hours and I was able to double check everything-- I got a 95%. THIS is what saved me: his grading policies aim to really help students that put in the work. 1) Any student scoring above 90% on the final would get a guaranteed A- in the class. I actually was able to get an A after absolutely flopping both midterms. 2) His philosophy is that he'd rather you do the homework late than not at all. So, he grants extensions NQA for any homework assignment, so there's a decent amount of padding you can do for your grade (Labs/HW/Quizzes). Plus, at the end of the quarter, he ended up just giving everyone full credit if they completed it.

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June 10, 2009
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A

Prof Huang is really funny prof even though he probably doesn't try to be. Its probably because he's asian and the simple jokes sound REALLY funny coming from him. He's a good lecturer but I could see that a lot of times he would derive shit on the board (all the equations and stuff) and everybody would get really lost. But have no fear because you will never get tested on the derivation of anything. Neither will you ever have to use calculus in the problems. READ THE BOOK AND DO THE HW. He takes a lot of test problems directly from hw problems but with numbers changed around or very slight modifications. And the hw problems come directly from the book hw problems which I have a solutions manual too. (email me at ************* if you want the solutions manual for the whole book) Yeah, the class definately would be harder without the solutions manual. The solutions manual was almost like a teacher for me because Huang didn't go over enough examples in class. Oh and I forgot to mention that you get a double sided paper to fill with whatever for all the tests. Awesome class. Take it with Huang.

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Jan. 11, 2017
Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: A+

SELLING: Physics 6A Textbook/Ebook 4TH edition (latest) & Solutions Manual for cheap ($50 but price is negotiable)

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Class is a lot of work but doable.

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Jan. 6, 2015
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A

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PHYSICS 5A
Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: A-
April 3, 2023

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.

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PHYSICS 18L
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A
March 26, 2022

Professor Huan was a solid professor. The class was mostly run by the TA's however and my TA's were both great.

For my quarter there was a lab a week for 10 weeks. The first two weeks were online and just mostly about using python for data analysis. The rest of the labs were in-person, and were very enjoyable.

This class had 7 graded formal reports.

I thought that the grading of the reports were generally very fair. The reports didn't need to be very long either, anywhere from 3-5 pages was a good length. Depending on your TA the grading could be either good or bad, but for my case it was good.

The reports are due by the end of the quarter. My advice would be to do 1 report a week though. If you let the reports pile up then you will be struggling to complete them at the end of the quarter which may impact final exam studying.

Some of the labs that were done include the photoelectric effect, building radios, measuring the e/m ratio, and superconductivity. The labs were engaging and fun.

The only major complaint I had was with the lab manual. Some of the labs were structured very clearly, however some, if not most, were structured in a confusing manner. I found myself having to ask the TA's a lot of questions to clarify what to actually do in the labs. Also, it was kind of hard to understand Huan in the zoom sessions, mostly due to his mic quality.

Overall Huan was a good professor and structured this lab class fairly. I would take Huan again.

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PHYSICS 5A
Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: N/A
April 24, 2023

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.

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PHYSICS 5A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A-
Dec. 16, 2023

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.

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PHYSICS 5A
Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A
June 25, 2023

ignore the negative reviews, this class is the equivalence of ap physics 1. Midterms are 4 questions and finals are 10. To be fair, he outlines a list of concepts/questions that will be on the midterm and finals. That means you are either not paying attention in class or not attempting to get help, so stop blaming the professor's teaching ability... Weekly homework: he ended up giving everyone full credit regardless but I honestly suggesting doing them and asking for help. For labs, as long as you show up to class, complete projects on-time and don't mess your partners up, should also be a perfect score.

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PHYSICS 5A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: B+
Jan. 6, 2024

Rather than add to all the negative reviews, I will write what tactics I found most helpful to pass his class:

1) youtube practice problems based on class content for each test and the professor's practice problems (do these for hours and you will be prepared as possible for the tests, they're truly the only way I could prepare for the tests)
2) don't worry to much about homework or quizzes, he ends up giving everyone 100%. The homework is a little helpful but literally the quizzes aren't relevant
3) don't copy down practice problems on your cheat sheet, actually learn them through youtube because his problems are slightly different
4) attend lecture because he will emphasize specific concepts that will be on the test. However, don't expect to learn anything from them. THIS IS VERY MUCH A CLASS WHERE YOU WILL BE TEACHING YOURSELF

*also, the fact that his exams are all free response is actually very helpful. if you don't know how to solve it, writing down equations that you think might apply and your best guess will usually get you partial credit

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PHYSICS 5A
Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A
Dec. 10, 2023

Huang has a lot of negative reviews, just because his lectures are unclear and the grading scheme does make it such that the average is curved to a B- per departmental policy. HOWEVER, I would say that if you take 5A with him, it's not the end of the world at all. Come into the class ready to take advantage of TAs/LAs for support in clarifying content since his lectures/office hours are not the clearest due to his strong accent. His exams are honestly fair and are very similar to examples in lecture/discussions– the hard part is finishing on time since they're administered during the 50min lecture window. This was the real challenge of this class: I ran out of time on both midterms, scoring about a 70% on both. But, his final does not take the full 3 hours and I was able to double check everything-- I got a 95%. THIS is what saved me: his grading policies aim to really help students that put in the work. 1) Any student scoring above 90% on the final would get a guaranteed A- in the class. I actually was able to get an A after absolutely flopping both midterms. 2) His philosophy is that he'd rather you do the homework late than not at all. So, he grants extensions NQA for any homework assignment, so there's a decent amount of padding you can do for your grade (Labs/HW/Quizzes). Plus, at the end of the quarter, he ended up just giving everyone full credit if they completed it.

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PHYSICS 6A
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
June 10, 2009

Prof Huang is really funny prof even though he probably doesn't try to be. Its probably because he's asian and the simple jokes sound REALLY funny coming from him. He's a good lecturer but I could see that a lot of times he would derive shit on the board (all the equations and stuff) and everybody would get really lost. But have no fear because you will never get tested on the derivation of anything. Neither will you ever have to use calculus in the problems. READ THE BOOK AND DO THE HW. He takes a lot of test problems directly from hw problems but with numbers changed around or very slight modifications. And the hw problems come directly from the book hw problems which I have a solutions manual too. (email me at ************* if you want the solutions manual for the whole book) Yeah, the class definately would be harder without the solutions manual. The solutions manual was almost like a teacher for me because Huang didn't go over enough examples in class. Oh and I forgot to mention that you get a double sided paper to fill with whatever for all the tests. Awesome class. Take it with Huang.

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PHYSICS 6A
Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: A+
Jan. 11, 2017

SELLING: Physics 6A Textbook/Ebook 4TH edition (latest) & Solutions Manual for cheap ($50 but price is negotiable)

email me at ************* or text **********

Class is a lot of work but doable.

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PHYSICS 6A
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
Jan. 6, 2015

Selling the book for this class. I will give you a very fair price. Contact **********

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