Great professor with clear lectures and interesting demos. He's quite understanding as well in case you can't take the test at the regular time. The class is well organized and the TAs and LAs did a great job at each discussion. The grading is fair--there's a straight scale with 5% for each grade, so 90%+ is A, 85-90% is A-, 80-85% is B+, etc. The pace of the class is roughly 1 chapter per week with 2 chapters a week near the last few weeks which was rough. Discussions are mandatory with a worksheet due at the end of discussion.

There are three midterms, 2 worth 15% and the first worth 5%. They aren't too bad although you should expect double jeopardy in that if you get something wrong in part a, but is used in b, c, d, e, etc. you'll get marked off for all those parts so your grade can drop significantly over a small mistake. Workload is manageable--about 10 to 12 book problems each week assigned on Pearson due Monday night.

Only thing I didn't like was that on Pearson, you immediately lost 20-50% of your grade if you got a MC question incorrect. This is different from free response questions where you get 6 tries and don't lose any points until you've used up all your attempts. Other than that, great class, would definitely take Professor Hauser again.

Hauser is like if Corbin received love as a child. That is to say, he’s crazy about physics and a little unhinged (likes fire and explosions) but very sweet and charming. His tests are fair, most of the questions are taken from homework or lecture examples, and he genuinely wants his students to do well. One downside is his lectures are a little theoretical, and he mostly derives equations and sometimes gets confused when people ask questions. If you can get Rayner as your TA do so, he is the goat. Plan to attend lecture in person also, he has cool demonstrations that aren’t captured on the bruincast.

Good professor.

Professor Hauser is an engaging lecturer, kind and friendly with the students, and his class demos and experiments really enhance the material we cover. The only room for improvement that I see is the amount of content covered, as in a single lecture we could go over an entire chapter broadly and the knowledge required for homework and exams is way more, so trying to bridge that gap or focus more on certain topics could be helpful.

Professor Hauser is amazing! He is so kind, clear, thoughtful, and caring. Lectures are easy to follow and interesting, and he puts so much effort into all aspects of the course. I learned a lot and had a good time.

Nice person. His teaching was also pretty good. His final was really tough though. There was a lot of self learning needed since 2 lectures a week wouldnt suffice, which I really disliked. If you dont know physics from high school/forgot 1A, you should probably brush up on it

as with any class/professor combo in the physics 1a-c series (in my opinion) your grade in this class will come down to how many problems you have done. but it's not too difficult to get an a in this class as long as you do well on the (very easy) first/second midterms. you can generally skip lectures, but there was one mc question from the first midterm which referenced a specific analogy given in lecture.

Very clear and helpful! Best physics professor ever!!!

Honestly, the only bad thing really about this class was mastering physics I hate that shit. There were 4 midterms, which was silly but they were manageable. Tests are worth a lot, so don't be silly like me and pay attention to all of them if you can.

I'm honestly shocked that Hauser has such good reviews. In my opinion, the main reason why Hauser has such glowing reviews is because the UCLA physics department is so awful even by UCLA standards (looking at you Gabriel Freiman) that in turn Hauser seems like a competent professor, when he's still pretty bad.

Lectures weren't really that useful. Sure, the demos that everyone is mentioning are pretty cool to watch, but in practice they don't really help much with actually understanding the material and just waste time. Hauser rarely covers the conceptual parts of physics and usually just writes down the formulas and some of their derivations, without going through any examples, which was a significant issue with the exams. Also worth noting that he writes everything down on chalkboard with no slides.

There are FOUR exams and a final, totaling for a whooping 80% of the grade. This is an absurd amount of work for a single quarter. To add on to that, the four exams are worth only 40 points, with 10 points going towards mcq (2 points each) covering the conceptual parts of physics. This means it's incredibly easy to lose points on the exam and bring down your grade significantly. These four exams and the final caused insane amounts of stress and made the class feel incredibly rushed.

I should mention that Hauser increased minimum grades this quarter. An A- and B- require 90% and 80%, which is pretty typical, but contrasts previous reviews. A B+ requires an 88%, not 87%.

If there's one good thing I'll say about the class, it's the TA Rayner Sutardja. He was easily one of the best TAs I've ever had, and his discussion sections were one of the rare discussions actually worth going to.

Tl;Dr: Hauser is extremely overrated and is only helped by the fact that the UCLA physics department (and UCLA in general) is a complete joke.