I was worried when I had read his Bruinwalk reviews on the first day, but I was pleasantly surprised by how fair, concerned, and humorous of a professor he was. I had taken AP Physics in high school so a fair amount of the class was a review. If you can master MasteringPhysics (ha), you can ace the class easily. He was very eager to have students come to his office hours and I wish I had taken him up on the offer a few times.

You learn more from the book than in his class. I stopped going to his lectures about 7th week, and during class time I just read the book and found it more beneficial. Not great at explaining things, he seems to make simple concepts seem confusing. His demonstrations however, are pretty cool!

He is overall a good professor. He has an accent but that is no problem because almost every word (99%) is comprehensible. During the exams, he lets you use double-sided single page note that you can write anything you want. His lectures are straightforward. He randomly throws in jokes and shows interesting examples that are relevant to the class. For midterms, I got 98% and 81%. Since everyone does so well, I thought I was not going to earn an A. For the final, try to squeeze in all the HW problems as well as some examples from the textbook all onto the cheat sheet. I ended up getting an A in the class. Bottom Line: good cheat sheets earn you an A.

Professor Huang was an average professor. He has a thick accent that makes it hard to understand what he is saying at times. This gets in the way when he tries to explain some of the more difficult subjects. He derives a lot of things on the board that are not very helpful to the understanding of the material since you will never be tested on these derivations. The few examples that he puts on the board are not reflective of any problem he will give you and tend to be more of a pluck and chuck system. He will not finish a lot of his examples but instead assume that you know enough to finish them through.

His grading is pretty reasonable, everyone gets a perfect score on the homework and labs. The labs arent hard at all you just have to show and finish on time and you get a perfect score. For the homework its all online. He posts the solutions after its due and allows you to submit corrections at the end of the quarter which means that everyone has a perfect score. The bulk of the grade thus comes from tests. They tend to be quite to the point but if this is the first time that you take physics it will be challenging.

Alright so first off. Unless you are AMAZING at physics/teaching yourself material DO NOT take him for 6A. I couldn't understand a word he was saying, the web assign homework was hard as shit, and he writes a bunch of junk on the board that didn't help at all. Me being a life science student didn't give a shit about this class therefore tried to fit all the equations and examples I could on my sheet of paper for the midterms and I got the lowest grade in the entire class on the 2nd midterm. It could have just been me not trying to learn, but honestly you can't understand him and when I went to office hours all he did was sit on the computer, act really annoyed, and tell me to look at the answer key and figure it out myself. If you can, avoid his class. Or be prepared to teach yourself everything.

Professor Huang is a decent professor. I fell asleep a lot in class because his voice sounded somewhat monotone and never fluctuated for emphasis on words, but I guess that was more of a personal problem. Physics 6A as a class is not difficult, granted I took introductory physics in high school. There were still a lot of new topics that I wasn't familiar with. Like the previous poster said, he would derive a lot of stuff that was never tested, but I guess it was helpful for understanding. The class grade consists of homework, lab, two midterms, and the final. Pretty much everyone gets 100% on homework and lab, so the grade is pretty much just the tests. He also limits the number of A's to 20% of the number of enrolled students at the start of the quarter. Don't be intimidated, though, because any other class ends up having about 20% A's anyways. Actually try to do the homework. Admittedly, I BS'ed my way through homework a lot, so I didn't pay much attention. What I didn't realize was that he takes a lot of his midterm/final questions directly from the homework. The book is also really helpful to read. Good luck!

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.

I never took physics before in high school and was really scared about taking it but it wasn't too bad. Huang is very likable and if you have trouble understanding what he's saying he's always glad to explain it more. The midterms aren't bad at all; some problems are very similar to textbook problems so make sure you do them. The final wasn't bad either, they were exactly the kind of problems that he told us to review before the final, like EXACTLY what he said. The problems aren't hard, just understand what you're doing. He always emails back pretty fast too. I thoroughly enjoyed the class.

I took physics 6A in fall of 2002 and let me tell you... Huang is horrible. I took physics ap in high school and did well so I already knew my stuff. Huang asks stupid questions on exams, gives out homework problems which are way too hard (not on the exams) and he just plain out does not care. I would ask him questions and he would tell me to look at the key and figure it out myself. I did well in this class but trust me... take someone else bc his exams are not a true reflection of how much you know. I only went to three of his lectures the whole year because goign to his lectures would confuse me. LAB is easy fo sheezie.