Honestly, I really liked Bauer this quarter. Prior to entering this class, I had heard a lot of people say that he was historically a pretty difficult physics professor and that it is difficult to get an A, but I think he may have toned down the difficulty of our class just a bit.

The first midterm for 5A is regarded to be pretty easy, but this quarter even the 2nd midterm for this class was pretty fair and doable. The final was also a reasonable difficulty, and touched on all of the different topics we had learned in the class.

Lectures were recorded, and honestly were very good and Bauer did a great job at breaking down novel concepts/ideas into more comprehensible pieces for us to learn. Well structured class and professor.

Professor Bauer is very passionate about physics and this helped the lectures feel engaging and easy to follow. While the material can be tricky if you’re new to physics, it’s manageable as long as you stay on top of weekly homework and lectures. Would take again