Professor Samani saved my virtual spring quarter and I honestly wish he was teaching all of my classes. His lectures were super clear and engaging, partly because he always made a lot of time for students to ask questions. He clearly put a lot of thought into making the class as interactive and educational as possible, with helpful resources like OpenStax (free textbook) and Campuswire (online discussion platform). The problem sets were challenging and took a little adjusting to, but I learned the most physics/problem-solving I've ever learned in a class, and there were many resources to get help. Prof Samani is also a really down-to-earth and considerate person and made this class fun and interesting. Highly recommend!

Professor Samani is extremely kind and understanding, especially during this chaotic time. As for the lectures, he goes through the materials thoroughly since he genuinely cares about his students' understanding. The only flaw of this class is that the problem sets were pretty long, but considering that homework covers at least 50% of our grade, the workload is probably reasonable. Overall, I would highly recommend taking his class.

Prof. Samani gives really clear, understandable, and engaging lectures. I learned a lot in physics. The Weekly assignments made up 50% of the final grade and they are challenging, so they always took me a whole weekend to complete to get a perfect score. The tests are slightly easier, but still full of traps. Physics is hard to learn, but Prof. Samani really gives me the courage to learn more.

Honestly the BEST professor I've ever had at UCLA. A very understanding guy. Spring 2020 was a terrible time to be studying but Samani made the quarter way better. If you're looking for a wholesome class, look no further. Just take this class. WARNING though, the homework he gives is quite heavy and requires a lot of time to complete (with some exceptions here and there). If you're taking 5 or more classes, i strongly advise against taking this class. The questions he gives are not too difficult, they are mostly doable, you just have to put a lot of thought into it. All said, I don't think there's many profs like Samani and again, if you're looking for a WHOLESOME class, THIS IS IT

Honestly the BEST professor I've ever had at UCLA. A very understanding guy. Spring 2020 was a terrible time to be studying but Samani made the quarter way better. If you're looking for a wholesome class, look no further. Just take this class. WARNING though, the homework he gives is quite heavy and requires a lot of time to complete (with some exceptions here and there). If you're taking 5 or more classes, i strongly advise against taking this class. The questions he gives are not too difficult, they are mostly doable, you just have to put a lot of thought into it. All said, I don't think there's many profs like Samani and again, if you're looking for a WHOLESOME class, THIS IS IT

Professor Samani is a godsend that I wish we could have again and again. The course overall WILL eat up a considerable amount of your time since it is very intensive in workload; you have been warned. His lectures are very concrete and, more or less, tangible to real-world examples, so they were very easy to follow through. His assigned weekly problem sets are tough and worth 50% of the final grade, but they also force you to interact with it, especially in collaboration with peers. His midterms are fair game if you're caught up with the material. It was also nice of him to recommend Openstax textbooks which we didn't have to pay a single penny for. His tastes in music outside of lecture are gold. Granted, I took this course during a pandemic and a time of racial unrest, but he adapts well to address the needs of students, from checking chat often to making sure the final is as fair as possible. His very down-to-earth personality creates a welcoming environment whenever I have to ask him about something.

All in all, I wish every other professor was like Prof. Samani.

Overall Samani is a great man. It's hard to like a physics class and looking back at it this was probably one of my favorite classes at UCLA, content wise. But, a few thoughts. The jump between in class problems and the questions on problem sets is huge. Homework was worth 50% of the grade, which may justify this. If this format continues definitely find a group to work with and the time to dedicate to it - it's doable, but you don't want to waste the easy points. The midterms and final were comparable in difficulty to those problem sets, but felt doable because we received problem set solutions, so could study from them. Nonetheless, I felt like I knew nothing while taking them, and only realized I was ok when I got the grades back. Samani is overall passionate about physics which is visible in every lecture, and he genuinely cares about students, but may seem intimidating.

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Professor Samani is one of the coolest professors I've ever had, in terms of his humor/relatability as well as his ability to teach physics in such an understandable and structured way. He introduces each of his lectures with goals and builds up to the big concepts, allowing for a much better holistic understanding. In terms of class structure, there are PSets due almost every week, which take a lot of time, but I enjoyed some parts of them to be honest. The midterms were 24 hrs for us in Spring 2020, and were very doable! I highly recommend taking this class – it was not only great for my GPA lol but also in terms of my understanding towards 1B material/physics intuition in general!

Really nice guy, really engaging. Really hard work (in a fun way, like solving a puzzle). Forgot about tests, but it seems like everyone did pretty good. Also has some good elevator music intro / breaks.