First midterm was trash and the regraders are ludicrous and ridiculous with how they refuse to give any points back, it's like they are hogging all points to fulfill some twisted dream of their of seeing others fail. We were thought to believe the practice would be like the actual midterm but alas it wasn't. The average was a god damn 71% percent which is GARBAGE and shows the lack of understanding that the class felt. Getting docked 3 whole points for a misinput of a number is far from ridiculous, IT IS ABUSRD. I hate this department so much I could write a symphony. AVOID! I was suppose to have Samani, I can't stand this anymore.

This review is for physics 1c but it wasn't listed on bruinlearn so I'm adding it here. This professor is a nice person let me just preface with that. However he is just plainly not smart. He was unable to answer any questions about the topics we were covering, I genuinely thing if he took his own class he would fail it. He does not know how to do math so I'm not sure why he was teaching an engineering physics class. He would often stummer and say sorry I'm more of a theorist which is just not a good response for a teacher. Also the second midterm was not graded until the week before the final which was extremely frustrating. The TA was much much more knowledgable on the subject and honestly smarter. This being said it had its advantages. He ofter would put practice midterm questions on the midterms because I genuinely think he was too stupid to come up with his own questions. He started the class on top of it but became more and more slacked on this class. Not uploading the lecture notes and board work and genuinely just taking so long to grade or upload practice midterms. I would not recommend him, but he isn't the worst, but not great and not clear at all. Definitely do the homework and practice midterms to do well in this class.

Professor Yu is very cool and helpful. His lectures are clear and helpful. You get a cheat sheet (front and back) for both midterms and the final exam, and he curves the class upward to a B average (doesn't curve down). He really wants his students to do well and keeps topics pretty simple. He knows this class is for non-stem majors/intro to physics, and he caters towards students with no previous understanding of physics.

When I took this class, it was Mathew’s first quarter of teaching. He knew most of the class were Psych or CogSci majors, so he went REALLY easy on us. Most of the more difficult Physics topics weren’t covered or not tested. His lectures were engaging because he tried to do a least one demonstration every day, and had volunteers help him with it.

During midterm and finals season, his office hours were really helpful, and he provided a study guide. If you’re even a little bit familiar with physics, you’ll be golden. This class was kindergarten level physics.