I agree with the other spring quarter reviews, while she wasn’t the most clear or organized professor I’ve had she definitely made exceptions and was understanding of student situations. As long as you read the textbook and understand the homework you’ll be totally fine, and if you need to ask any questions about the content she’ll probably explain it decently. But if you want to really understand the theories and concepts more than what the textbook gives you, I probably wouldn’t recommend her.

Seeing her previous 5C reviews, I was nervous to take this class, but I think this professor has significantly improved since that one disastrous quarter.

Take this class if you are either trying to just fulfil the physics requirement (like me), or are horrendously awful at physics (also me lol). They are definitely a professors that is on the student's side. For example, discussion worksheets were worth 10% of the class, and were graded only by completion, and although the homework were on mastering physics, if you went to their office hours they would help and tell you the answer. They also offers up to 25% of your midterm grades back if you correct your work, and again just going to their office hours would tell you how to get to the answer. All of these things helped me get an A-, which I am honestly so happy with considering that for both midterms I scored the mean score.

tbh since their lectures were at 8am, I would just read the textbook and her notes to self study, although the lectures were recorded (which is great compared to corbin). The few lectures I did go to though, I did understand what was going on and I think they were explaining things fine (but I'm probably not the best to judge since I snoozed my alarm too much to make it to many classes). Their notes are a great resource, and they did not have errors as compared to her 5C class. They would also post summary sheets of useful formulas for the week's content.
The midterms and the final were quite fair, as the questions were not too challenging but also not too simple - just study the material and you should perform fine. They are also super helpful and accommodating in exams: open to answering questions, and they even went out of the lecture hall to find a calculator for someone who forgot theirs for the test.

Our TA told us that they was actively getting help from other professors to improve their teaching and classes, and I think it definitely showed in how they organised the class this quarter. I think if you took their class in the future, it will get better.

In all honestly, I do not this Simpson was the worst. I came in seeing all the reviews from Physics 5C and was very nervous coming in. With only 44 people enrolled in the whole class, I definitely felt intimidated and scared. Coming from a C+ in 1A I was definitely scared. However, while she isn’t the greatest lecturer, I felt like she is very supportive and genuinely wants us to succeed. Her exams are difficult (midterms are way harder than the final exam) but, she offers generous extra credit when you do test corrections and curves the final grade. Even when I missed the last page of exam 2, the extra credit saved my ass since you can earn up to 25% of your lost points back as extra credit. While she isn’t the best, she is trying her best and I can feel that she wants us to succeed.