If you are someone who needs solid practice problems before taking an exam, do not take this class with Professor Tung! He throws you out to the wolves for every exam. The only thing he does during lecture is demos and equation derivation. He uses Kudu, a site where you take every exam and do every homework assignment on. The only saving grace is the extra credit, where he adds 3% of your grade at the end of the quarter. But genuinely, I wanted to die because of this class, and going into every exam I just accepted my fate because I knew that nothing he taught was going to be on it. And, I was right.

If you're looking for a professor who does his best to engage students with the material, is clear and thorough with delivering course content, provides extra credit opportunities, and is accommodating, take Tung's class. It was a great introduction to Physics (I never took it in highschool), and his quirky sense of humor doesn't hurt either. I want to clarify that his class was not "an easy A"- I had to do and redo homework, go to office hours, and really practice to have a chance at doing well. If you do the homework and don't skip lectures, you'll be fine.

idk why this man is praised as a god. if u have never taken physics before this will be an incredibly hard class good luck m8

Disclaimer: I took physics 1A before taking this class, as well as mechanics from honors physics in high school, so take my judgment on the relative easiness of the class with a grain of salt if you don't have that background.

Overall, I think Tung was a really reasonable professor, and he's really good at explaining physics in a terms that make sense to someone who hasn't studied physics in depth before -- like, he understands that it's 5A and we're all just life science majors trying to fulfill a requirement and takes that into account in his teaching. His lectures were pretty engaging too, he always added in things that weren't just him going through slides (went through equations, showed videos of experiments or sometimes did them in the classroom).

About grading: very reasonable, I think. We had readings and practice problems for each unit on Kudu (a program which I literally hate, but only because I find the user interface to be just The Worst), and we only had to do 65% of the practice problems and the rest that we completed after that were extra credit. There were worksheets in discussion but attendance wasn't taken so you could do them on your own if you wanted. Midterm and final were alright, different than the stuff in class but still applied the same concepts in the same way.

Oh where to start? I saw this professors seemingly great reviews on bruinwalk and was very excited to have him for c sesh physics… boy was I wrong. That class was such a mess! His lectures were really a waste of time, and unorganized. He taught nothing of substance and provides no resources. Let me be the first to say I’m fine with bad professors so long as they give the necessary resources to succeed. This man is neither a good professor nor does he give any extra resources to his students. And on the topic of students… this man is so narcissistic and apathetic towards his students. He repeatedly referred to us as his “audience.” I doubt he learned a single kids name. When he was approached with questions he usually was rather unhelpful and condescending.

The biggest blunder of this course, though, were his tests. You see Tung’s tests are multiple choice and he really doesn’t allow for partial credit on much, meaning a lot of your grade comes down to a few questions. They are also on this godforsaken website called kudu, which we had major tech problems with. He was absent for our midterm, ultimately messed up calculating grades, and as a result canceled midterm scores and made our 12 question final exam the only test grade of the entire class.

Above all this, he really was a bad teacher. He confused people more than he helped them the more he went on, and often approached problems in the most conceptually difficult ways to grasp. I was lucky to have had experience in physics, otherwise I feel this class would have been more of a challenge. I found myself often explaining problems to peers, as the professors explanations and instruction was too rudimentary to cover the homework/ quizzes. Just don’t bother with him - not worth it at all.

I'm retaking this class with a different professor right now because I was unable to finish the first time due to personal issues. I'm coming back to say that, after taking this class with a different prof (Rombes), I think that the way Tung teaches makes the course a lot harder than it needs to be. His lectures were engaging for the most part, and he was good at explaining things clearly, but I think he tried to teach concepts in a way that was too in-depth for an intro physics course. There are a lot of things in my old notes from this course that haven't even been mentioned in the one I'm taking now because they're not necessary to understand the curriculum.

If you like physics and want a deep, integrated understanding of the different concepts in 5A, then this might be the professor for you. Otherwise, I found that other profs like Rombes make their courses a little more beginner friendly.

Tung is a great professor! He speaks in a manner that is very straight-forward and clear. He's able to break down concepts well and gives relevant examples. He cares very much about the students, his tests are fair and similar to the homework and in-class questions. He gives us review sessions before the midterms, which are exactly like the tests. You just need to do the homework and go to his review sessions in order to do well on the class.

Dr. Tung is an excellent professor who really cares about his students. He explains concepts very easily and always addresses questions throughly. His homework policy is very generous as its not due till the end of the quarter and if you do more than 65% you can receive Extra Credit. Exams were definitely fair overall. The multiple choice portion was pretty straightforward but the free response was definitely more difficult. It was still very doable for a 24 hr exam. I highly recommend Shardul if he is a Lab TA for 5A because he made labs really enjoyable. I highly recommend Dr. Tung for any physics class.

I recommend taking PHYSICS 5A with Dr. Tung. The class taught me a lot while being low stress (as every class should be). Dr. Tung’s lectures were very clear, organized, and well thought out. They were more like conceptual lectures though, so example problems in the lectures will not exactly mimic homework problems. The lectures were sort of like extended Khan Academy videos with some participation questions that were extra credit. Dr. Tung also has an extremely cool intro video that he plays at the beginning of every lecture which amazed me every time I watched it.

Homework was collected all at the end of the class. These problems mostly prepared me for tests. Some of the homework problems were difficult, so ask on Campuswire for help. Only 60% of homework is need to get full credit for the homework part of your grade. Anything else over that is extra credit.

Discussions were somewhat useful. We worked on worksheets in groups and the TA’s went over the solutions at the end of class, which cleared things up. However, this might be the case just for the session I took.

Labs were tedious, but doable. They took a long time as we had to set up and record our own videos to analyze. The labs were also extremely independent, so no one really talked to their group members during lab. My TA wasn’t that helpful, but the lab manuals had enough instruction for me to figure out most stuff on my own.

The four midterms we had were similar to homework. Each midterm was 15% each and there was no final. There were only about 15 questions on each test, so one question was 1% of your grade. That can seem intimidating, but there was a lot of extra credit in the class. We were also given 24 hours to complete it and we could use the whole 24 hours if needed, meaning there wasn’t any time limit within the 24 hours.

Professor Tung was a very nice and funny person who gave very engaging lectures with examples ofen in the form of videos demonstrations he conducted. Professor Tung's lectures was more on the conceptual side which sometimes made calculation in homework, discussion worksheets, etc. a little trickier but still doable. The labs were pretty tedious in the beginning but I felt as if it eased up a bit towards the end; like other reviews stated, the labs often times felt like a seperate class since they took up a lot of time and didn't match up with the lecture content at times. Also, I wasn't a big fan of the worksheets since it also introduced topics that were barely introduced (sometimes literally introduced in lecture a few minutes prior to discussion). I'd strongly recommend this class since Professor Tung genuinely cares about students learning and is also pretty forgiving in terms of grades since he offers a lot of extra credit than can bump you up a grade level if you do most of it.