This woman is absolutely amazing. Her lectures are clear and she actually explains what she's doing (unlike most professors) and even though the class isn't curved her exams are very fair and usually more straightforward than the homework. If you understand the homework the exams are pretty doable. She was also very understanding with the corona virus situation and handled the final and determination of final grades very well. She's also just a really fun and cool person in general. 10/10 would take a class with her again.

Professor Naoz was a great teacher. She is sweet and emphasizes that you don't need to be a genius or have some sort of "physics intuition" to solve physics problems.

There were participation quizzes, homework, two midterms, and a final.

The participation quizzes were just graded for completition and to make sure you're actually showing up to class.

The homework was very fair based on what was learned in lecture, and the deadlines are usually about a week.

I thought that the midterms were easy, they touched on the main concepts of the homework such as the lagrangian and central potential.

The final was fair, however it was very long. Just study the homework and the practice final exams and you should be fine.

The exams were all take home this quarter, and you had about 4 days to complete them. If they were in person I think that they would have been a little too much work to complete in an hour, but for take home they were great.

There is an optional Mathematica component to this class, which offers 15% extra credit. I would recommend anyone to take this class, as the labs were fair and didn't take up too much time. Also, I think Mathematica is a valuable skill, and Corbin was a great professor, so I think it's worth it if it fits with your schedule.

The only problem that I had with Naoz was that she would walk around and ask everybody who they were working with for the in-class problems. I would have preferred if she would just let us work and we would go over it as a class at the end. This is pretty much just nitpicking though.

Overall Naoz was a great professor and I'm taking her again for 105B!

Take her, she's a queen <3 I thought she was intimidating at the beginning because she looks serious just like all the other stem professors but as I got to know her through office hours, I learnt that she is probably one of the most caring people. If you are having any difficulties just go talk to her and she's gonna try to help you a lot. I had an F on my first midterm but I went to talk about her about my difficulties, studied hard got friends in class to help me and got a perfect score on the second midterm and overall ended up with an A. Her HW is pretty heavy I think personally, but her tests are easier.

Great professor, really cares about students. Very interesting class, is a little hard to read her handwriting but tests are really easy and most people get very good grades. shes great.

Professor Naoz is the best professor I have had at UCLA. She is not only a great person who genuinely cares about her students learning but she also has very planned out lectures that are very clear and understandable with time for practice questions that keep everyone engaged and she really encouraged making friends in the class. The homework was very manageable and related to lectures and the tests were very similar to in class problems and practices she posted on line before. Overall, I definitely recommend taking a class with profesor naoz.

One of the best professors I've had here at UCLA. Professor Naoz is incredibly kind and has many interesting insights about mechanics that made this class super interesting to me. Her homework can be tough but she is more than happy to help in office hours, and if you understand it you should be more than ready to go for the exams, which are incredibly fair. I'd recommend taking a class with her 1000 times over.

I love Smadar. Her midterms are completely reasonable, she overprepares you for them with the homeworks so you shouldn't need to study much. Homeworks can be difficult but go to her office hours. She'll make you try to work it out yourself but she's very helpful. I could always follow with her lectures and she also offers an extra 10% extra credit if you take the mathematica lab. Overall, was a great experience, highly recommend taking her for both 105A and 105B.

Despite getting an A in this class, I feel very unprepared for future classes involving this subject matter. Being an electrical engineering major, I really needed to understand the material. However, Naoz mostly did derivations of physics theory which left me, along with the majority of the class, extremely confused. They were completely unnecessary and did little to help teach us. Because of all the time spent on derivations, she fell behind the other classes in terms of material covered. We only covered SHM, electric field, electric force, electric potential, and capacitance. The other classes covered that as well as resistors and thermodynamics to name a few. These are things we need to know. The tests were pretty easy though. They were basically what the problem sets she posted were. Honestly, you could probably do well by just reading the book and doing the homework. Going to lecture will not help.

The Professor is not that bad as the previous reviews said. She really cares about students. I took physics 1B with her. Even though she usually spend a lot of time on proving the theorem and those proof are, for most of time, really hard to follow and to understand, her class is organized and straightforward. Honestly, she is not an excellent lecturer, but comparing to other professors I think she is still above average. I would really like to take her class for physics 1C.

Lectures are a complete waste of time as she spends the two hours doing proofs on the board without attempting to relate the mathematics to anything tangible. However, there are participation questions so you pretty much have to sit through the lectures. The tests are significantly easier compared to the material covered in lectures and discussions, so you could probably get by by self-studying if you're mathematically oriented.