Professor

Pietro Musumeci

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4.6
Overall Ratings
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Easiness 1.6 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 1.9 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 4.2 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 4.2 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Aug. 2, 2016
Quarter: Fall 2015
Grade: B

Musumeci is a great in class lecturer. I could follow him much better than Corbin and he was funny and gave cool demos. His tests were also reasonable. The Mastering Physics is of course an overpriced piece of crap but the homework problems were still useful in preparing for his tests. His lecture notes are useful and pretty organized. He is the best physics professor I have had at UCLA. He honestly teaches better in big groups - I found him to be not that approachable during office hours.

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Feb. 7, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: B+

Honestly, this was the hardest class I took in the physics department here at UCLA, and I didn't learn much--way harder than 110B, 112, 18L, and the rest. Musumeci is a convoluted lecturer (probably because he treats us as though we already know the material), and the exams are unfair (derive the shape of a spinning planet, Euler angles of a satellite, etc). Suggestion: avoid.

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PHYSICS 105A
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Dec. 25, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

Great professor. He clearly cares about his student's learning and can be funny at times. His lectures are clear and he explains things very well. The homework often took a long time but I felt the questions asked were relevant to what would be on the midterm. The sole exception to this was Lagrangians for me since the homework questions felt leagues easier than what was asked on the midterm. His tests are HARD, though, and I had difficulties completing them within the time limit. The average for the first midterm was ~70% and the average for the second was 48%. There's also a Mathematica portion to this class but it's nothing too bad (only 6 homeworks in total). He also gave two Mathematica projects as extra credit.

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PHYSICS 105A
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Dec. 27, 2020
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A

Prof Musumeci is great. His love of soccer and his accelerator "downstairs" is so funny. Lectures are very enjoyable and he is willing to stop to answer questions. The HW are hard (even though they are straight from Marion and Thornton which has a solution manual) because sometimes I can't even understand the solutions. The exams are timed for an hour which is stressful with the online format because sometimes you get unforeseen tech issues. The questions definitely hard, but at least our atrocious average (40 something percent on the second MT I think?) got curved in the end.
Beware, this class does have a 2-hr mathematica lab section that is not shown on the schedule and mathematica hw was 10% of our grade (mathematica was also on the second MT). It's not too bad though because you don't really have to go to the labs to complete the assignments, since Corbin posts his notebooks after every lab.

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PHYSICS 1C
Quarter: Fall 2015
Grade: B
Aug. 2, 2016

Musumeci is a great in class lecturer. I could follow him much better than Corbin and he was funny and gave cool demos. His tests were also reasonable. The Mastering Physics is of course an overpriced piece of crap but the homework problems were still useful in preparing for his tests. His lecture notes are useful and pretty organized. He is the best physics professor I have had at UCLA. He honestly teaches better in big groups - I found him to be not that approachable during office hours.

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PHYSICS 105B
Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: B+
Feb. 7, 2020

Honestly, this was the hardest class I took in the physics department here at UCLA, and I didn't learn much--way harder than 110B, 112, 18L, and the rest. Musumeci is a convoluted lecturer (probably because he treats us as though we already know the material), and the exams are unfair (derive the shape of a spinning planet, Euler angles of a satellite, etc). Suggestion: avoid.

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PHYSICS 105A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 25, 2020

Great professor. He clearly cares about his student's learning and can be funny at times. His lectures are clear and he explains things very well. The homework often took a long time but I felt the questions asked were relevant to what would be on the midterm. The sole exception to this was Lagrangians for me since the homework questions felt leagues easier than what was asked on the midterm. His tests are HARD, though, and I had difficulties completing them within the time limit. The average for the first midterm was ~70% and the average for the second was 48%. There's also a Mathematica portion to this class but it's nothing too bad (only 6 homeworks in total). He also gave two Mathematica projects as extra credit.

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PHYSICS 105A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 27, 2020

Prof Musumeci is great. His love of soccer and his accelerator "downstairs" is so funny. Lectures are very enjoyable and he is willing to stop to answer questions. The HW are hard (even though they are straight from Marion and Thornton which has a solution manual) because sometimes I can't even understand the solutions. The exams are timed for an hour which is stressful with the online format because sometimes you get unforeseen tech issues. The questions definitely hard, but at least our atrocious average (40 something percent on the second MT I think?) got curved in the end.
Beware, this class does have a 2-hr mathematica lab section that is not shown on the schedule and mathematica hw was 10% of our grade (mathematica was also on the second MT). It's not too bad though because you don't really have to go to the labs to complete the assignments, since Corbin posts his notebooks after every lab.

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