Great professor with clear lectures and interesting demos. He's quite understanding as well in case you can't take the test at the regular time. The class is well organized and the TAs and LAs did a great job at each discussion. The grading is fair--there's a straight scale with 5% for each grade, so 90%+ is A, 85-90% is A-, 80-85% is B+, etc. The pace of the class is roughly 1 chapter per week with 2 chapters a week near the last few weeks which was rough. Discussions are mandatory with a worksheet due at the end of discussion.

There are three midterms, 2 worth 15% and the first worth 5%. They aren't too bad although you should expect double jeopardy in that if you get something wrong in part a, but is used in b, c, d, e, etc. you'll get marked off for all those parts so your grade can drop significantly over a small mistake. Workload is manageable--about 10 to 12 book problems each week assigned on Pearson due Monday night.

Only thing I didn't like was that on Pearson, you immediately lost 20-50% of your grade if you got a MC question incorrect. This is different from free response questions where you get 6 tries and don't lose any points until you've used up all your attempts. Other than that, great class, would definitely take Professor Hauser again.

Hauser is like if Corbin received love as a child. That is to say, he’s crazy about physics and a little unhinged (likes fire and explosions) but very sweet and charming. His tests are fair, most of the questions are taken from homework or lecture examples, and he genuinely wants his students to do well. One downside is his lectures are a little theoretical, and he mostly derives equations and sometimes gets confused when people ask questions. If you can get Rayner as your TA do so, he is the goat. Plan to attend lecture in person also, he has cool demonstrations that aren’t captured on the bruincast.

Good professor.

He does lots of very cool demos that show the physics principles in action. It helps quantify what you're actually learning. He is extremely broad in lecturing, and it honestly gets confusing sometimes when you end up trying the homework and don't really have an idea. He also skipped some ideas, such as Poynting vectors, which kind of shoots you in the foot if you're there to really learn. I prefer Corbin lectures by comparison since he goes more in depth. He uses a straight scale, which means 92-98 is an A, 90-92 is A-, etc. It isn't the greatest thing in the world, especially since his midterms are out of 40 points, and the final is out of 80 points. Getting a little part wrong is super detrimental. I got an A- on one of the midterms purely because I forgot the units on one of my answers, and that was the difference between a 91 and a 93. I also did regrade requests on a midterm and raised my grade from 57% to 64%, which I think is absurd. Overall it's an okay course, but I do think the exams could have had more partial credit or be more forgiving if you get one part wrong.

Professor Hauser is an amazing and engaging lecturer with the perfect mix of humor and clear descriptions of concepts. He also does a lot of demos that help us visualize concepts in class, which is super helpful for a visual learner like myself.

Professor Hauser is an engaging lecturer, kind and friendly with the students, and his class demos and experiments really enhance the material we cover. The only room for improvement that I see is the amount of content covered, as in a single lecture we could go over an entire chapter broadly and the knowledge required for homework and exams is way more, so trying to bridge that gap or focus more on certain topics could be helpful.

Professor Hauser is amazing! He is so kind, clear, thoughtful, and caring. Lectures are easy to follow and interesting, and he puts so much effort into all aspects of the course. I learned a lot and had a good time.

Nice person. His teaching was also pretty good. His final was really tough though. There was a lot of self learning needed since 2 lectures a week wouldnt suffice, which I really disliked. If you dont know physics from high school/forgot 1A, you should probably brush up on it

as with any class/professor combo in the physics 1a-c series (in my opinion) your grade in this class will come down to how many problems you have done. but it's not too difficult to get an a in this class as long as you do well on the (very easy) first/second midterms. you can generally skip lectures, but there was one mc question from the first midterm which referenced a specific analogy given in lecture.

Very clear and helpful! Best physics professor ever!!!