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.

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.

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.