The guy stinks. Let me break it down, I'm a 4.0 physiology major and Ive taken MANY harder classes than physics 5A. In this entire course, Ive gotten 3 questions wrong, and ended up with a B-, from only 3 questions. His first exam was easy, not because the material was easy, but because he's so slow he couldn't reach any new material by week three. The way his exams are set up, usually around 10-12 multiple choice questions, and 1-2 show your work questions. If you get EVERY single multiple choice question correct (your work doesn't matter here btw, so if you get it wrong you get 0), but if you get every single multiple choice question correct, but miss the last question, you get a 50! YOU FAILED :) for missing 1 question out of the entire subject he taught:) Lets break down his teaching style, you show up to class, he plays his stupid intro and then you watch a grown man do 1 problem the entire class using letters and not even one number. God forbid he explains what the thing he's doing is, no no no, he just plugs in letters and Jesus Christ takes the rest. Over the entire fall quarter, I swear to god, he did 3 or 4 problems in class, and he never used 1 number solving those problems. Dont believe me? Take him and find out. Since he's so amazing at teaching (sarcasm), and since he uses only letters and barely explains what he's doing, I decided re-watching his lectures would probably help, but unfortunately his lectures were not uploaded on Bruinlearn for the first 3 weeks. My friends and I asked him, probably 5 times if there's anything he could do to help, he leaned over and said word for word "Sorry, can't do anything about it". So, all his online videos were uploaded 2 days before his first exam, and he was completely aware of it and did nothing about it. Now let's talk about the second exam, he got sick for a week and cancelled class. During that week, he uploaded random YouTube lectures from a previous class that were NOT in synch with our class, they were 40 minutes behind. Then exam 2 rolls around and guess what, the problem that's worth 30% of your grade on exam 2 was the section he never taught properly in class. I tried to go irl to ask, but coincidentally he cancelled his office hours. Final rolls around, the guy is 2 weeks behind and 1 week out, so what doe he do? There no time to teach anymore, he just goes over 2 more problems using all letters during class time and sends you off. His entire homework is AI generated, not even written by a human being. The kudus homework is not helpful, because it's not representative of his problems on his exams, AT ALL. Look, take it from me, this guy ruined my gpa, and yeah it's not a big deal but this was out of my control. There was genuinely nothing I could've done. So, moral of the story, if you take him your grade is like 60% in your hands, and the other 40% more in his, even if you study all day. He's just garbage. Not a good teacher, always behind to the point everyone showed up to lab with zero understanding of the subject, and never used a single number in an example, all letters. His class is talking, he just talks a lot, not much work being done. Only 3 or 4 problems were solved in class the whole semester. But his exams are not talking, they're all work. So he's no help. If it wasn't for YouTube, I think I wouldve gotten a C. Trust me, Im not some idiot who need physics to pass something. Ima 4.0 physio major, your grade is NOT all in your control. He STINKS!

Prof Tung's lectures are very conceptual. They're fun because of his demonstrations, but they won't prepare you for the exams at all. You either get it or you don't. He's also not very nice in office hours. I would take Bauer over Tung.

Honestly a completely manageable summer course. Tung's lectures were super engaging and I personally loved in-depth explanations on why things work. He did rearrange our class scheduling a bit as he started teaching at another institution midway through our course, but since lectures were recorded it wasn't a big deal. He did cut into office hours a lot, which is disappointing. Homework was generally easy (8-15 questions) and had unlimited attempts. The weekly quizzes were pretty decent although hard to predict exactly what types of questions we'd see. The averages were in the 60s and 70s. The extra credit was kind of irrelevant but do it anyways. Tung was pretty forthright when it came to what topics would be on the final, but there was definitely a lack of practice material given. Overall solid class if you're decent at physics because although interesting, you're pretty much on your own.

I specifically took this class to avoid taking Simpson during A sesh, and all I can say is that it was probably not worth it. I'm not sure whether he's different during the summer, but this class was very strange. First of all, Tung decided to cancel one of our classes and just tack on an extra 25 minutes to other classes because he was teaching at a CC. I'm like 90% sure this is not in fact legal, as class should occur at the designated time on the syllabus as well as on myucla.

In addition, lecture was almost completely useless. He spent maybe a week on complex numbers, which was interesting but not on the exam, which sucks during a summer class when you only have 6 weeks to learn material that is difficult to master in 10 weeks. He rarely went over problems, and when he did, they were usually very rudimentary. The textbook he uses sucks, and it barely explains anything. I taught myself almost entirely from the University Physics textbook.

Apparently, during the regular school year, if you complete over 65% of the homework you get extra credit. This was not the case for us as extra credit was extra work and graded on completion. I had better exam scores than extra credit scores, so it did not help me at all. Also, he completely did not understand the questions that I asked about the homework. Sometimes I had a conceptual question, and he would just solve the problem. The one time I genuinely needed help solving the problem, he didn't solve it, despite saying it wasn't a topic he was putting on the exam.

He randomly decided not to put AC circuits on the final, which I didn't really find fair for students who were the best at that specific topic. As far as the exams, multiple choice exams do not belong in math/physics, in my opinion, as it allows for rampant cheating since there is no proctoring in online classes. I get that it's easier to grade, but it meant getting zero credit for small mistakes.

Lastly, I'm not sure what exactly happened, but a lot of people complained about the way he curved grades. I think he ended up curving more at the end because too many people complained. He also deleted the canvas site almost immediately after the end of class.

Overall, I would not recommend taking this class over the summer with Tung.

Professor Tung's physics class stressed more theoretical physics over quantitative. The first midterm was mostly conceptual, which led to a very low grade distribution, but the second midterm was much easier as a result. The class itself is interesting, as he often does demos and is a good lecturer. The material is interesting as well, but sometimes the conceptual nature of the class became too much. The final however was more quantitative which probably helped many students. Lectures are not mandatory, but if you attend and do the Kudu's, they count towards extra credit. All of the extra credit totals to around 3% which is very generous.

Nothing against the TA, but how Dr. Tung handled class with the on going events was disappointing and disrespectful. he never addressed any campus events other than saying that "things were happening" and after my peers had been victim to police brutality, he made us take a midterm without even addressing it or making it a low stakes exam. It was upsetting because I have heard so many good things about this professor, but honestly not ok with the campus events going on, and he is honestly very inconsiderate. He really only cares about physics and thats it. nothing else, not physical well being of students and not the mental well being of students. It was hard to go through physics like this. something that is already hard made even harder through inconsiderate professors with no lack of empathy or compassion. The class itself was honestly pretty straight forward content wise, but be wear of the midterms (two questions each worth 45 points & 5 multiple choice each worth 2 points). If you don't know how to do the problems ur screwed but you can also write down every equation known to man and still get at least a 50 percent lol. I just don't understand how this is a good way of assesing learning if you give students two problems worth 45 points each....

I have not looked at physics since it was entirely online in high school and I didn't remember anything so I was very afraid of taking physics in college, but Professor Tung was awesome. His exams were mostly fair and even when one was particularly hard he was very accommodating and receptive to student feedback which I really appreciated.

Tung's class was an interesting experience for me, as it broke my 4.0, however, I can't say that it was a bad class by any stretch of my imagination. He's a solid lecturer who kept me engaged, and he provides a littany of resources for you to study. That being said, his exams are brutal. The first one was no sweat and realistically its all basic algebra, but from the second exam on, it gets crazy. His questions are super in depth, and we were given nothing like it to practice for the class. He's also the only professor that doesn't use Mastering Physics in the 5 series, and instead uses Kudu, which has no problems that will accurately prep you come exam time. He still was a caring professor though, so I can't say too much bad about him

this class was so hard. For summer it was an online 6 week class, with homework assignments and weekly kudu quizzes and an online final at the end (because of the hurricane quizzes 2 and 3, and 4 and 5 ended up being combined). Lectures were streamed on YouTube live and Tung is more focused on derivations than showing how to solve problems (although to be fair this has been my experience with all the UCLA physics profs I've had). The kudu quizzes were so hard not necessarily because the questions themselves were super hard but because they were a time crunch (I suspect to prevent people from cheating), so if you made a mistake in one of the questions you would not have a lot of time to go back and redo it. The final was also difficult and nothing like the kudu homework assignments or quiz questions. Class got up curved pretty heavily at the end, and Tung still had his policy of 65% required homework and anything extra is extra credit though so I can't complain too much. if you like physics you should be fine

I enjoyed Tung's lectures. Material is definitely difficult, but if you are attentive in lecture and keep up with all of the practice problems it isn't too bad.