Honestly a completely manageable summer course. Tung's lectures were super engaging and I personally loved in-depth explanations on why things work. He did rearrange our class scheduling a bit as he started teaching at another institution midway through our course, but since lectures were recorded it wasn't a big deal. He did cut into office hours a lot, which is disappointing. Homework was generally easy (8-15 questions) and had unlimited attempts. The weekly quizzes were pretty decent although hard to predict exactly what types of questions we'd see. The averages were in the 60s and 70s. The extra credit was kind of irrelevant but do it anyways. Tung was pretty forthright when it came to what topics would be on the final, but there was definitely a lack of practice material given. Overall solid class if you're decent at physics because although interesting, you're pretty much on your own.

I specifically took this class to avoid taking Simpson during A sesh, and all I can say is that it was probably not worth it. I'm not sure whether he's different during the summer, but this class was very strange. First of all, Tung decided to cancel one of our classes and just tack on an extra 25 minutes to other classes because he was teaching at a CC. I'm like 90% sure this is not in fact legal, as class should occur at the designated time on the syllabus as well as on myucla.

In addition, lecture was almost completely useless. He spent maybe a week on complex numbers, which was interesting but not on the exam, which sucks during a summer class when you only have 6 weeks to learn material that is difficult to master in 10 weeks. He rarely went over problems, and when he did, they were usually very rudimentary. The textbook he uses sucks, and it barely explains anything. I taught myself almost entirely from the University Physics textbook.

Apparently, during the regular school year, if you complete over 65% of the homework you get extra credit. This was not the case for us as extra credit was extra work and graded on completion. I had better exam scores than extra credit scores, so it did not help me at all. Also, he completely did not understand the questions that I asked about the homework. Sometimes I had a conceptual question, and he would just solve the problem. The one time I genuinely needed help solving the problem, he didn't solve it, despite saying it wasn't a topic he was putting on the exam.

He randomly decided not to put AC circuits on the final, which I didn't really find fair for students who were the best at that specific topic. As far as the exams, multiple choice exams do not belong in math/physics, in my opinion, as it allows for rampant cheating since there is no proctoring in online classes. I get that it's easier to grade, but it meant getting zero credit for small mistakes.

Lastly, I'm not sure what exactly happened, but a lot of people complained about the way he curved grades. I think he ended up curving more at the end because too many people complained. He also deleted the canvas site almost immediately after the end of class.

Overall, I would not recommend taking this class over the summer with Tung.

Professor Tung's physics class stressed more theoretical physics over quantitative. The first midterm was mostly conceptual, which led to a very low grade distribution, but the second midterm was much easier as a result. The class itself is interesting, as he often does demos and is a good lecturer. The material is interesting as well, but sometimes the conceptual nature of the class became too much. The final however was more quantitative which probably helped many students. Lectures are not mandatory, but if you attend and do the Kudu's, they count towards extra credit. All of the extra credit totals to around 3% which is very generous.

Nothing against the TA, but how Dr. Tung handled class with the on going events was disappointing and disrespectful. he never addressed any campus events other than saying that "things were happening" and after my peers had been victim to police brutality, he made us take a midterm without even addressing it or making it a low stakes exam. It was upsetting because I have heard so many good things about this professor, but honestly not ok with the campus events going on, and he is honestly very inconsiderate. He really only cares about physics and thats it. nothing else, not physical well being of students and not the mental well being of students. It was hard to go through physics like this. something that is already hard made even harder through inconsiderate professors with no lack of empathy or compassion. The class itself was honestly pretty straight forward content wise, but be wear of the midterms (two questions each worth 45 points & 5 multiple choice each worth 2 points). If you don't know how to do the problems ur screwed but you can also write down every equation known to man and still get at least a 50 percent lol. I just don't understand how this is a good way of assesing learning if you give students two problems worth 45 points each....

I have not looked at physics since it was entirely online in high school and I didn't remember anything so I was very afraid of taking physics in college, but Professor Tung was awesome. His exams were mostly fair and even when one was particularly hard he was very accommodating and receptive to student feedback which I really appreciated.

Tung's class was an interesting experience for me, as it broke my 4.0, however, I can't say that it was a bad class by any stretch of my imagination. He's a solid lecturer who kept me engaged, and he provides a littany of resources for you to study. That being said, his exams are brutal. The first one was no sweat and realistically its all basic algebra, but from the second exam on, it gets crazy. His questions are super in depth, and we were given nothing like it to practice for the class. He's also the only professor that doesn't use Mastering Physics in the 5 series, and instead uses Kudu, which has no problems that will accurately prep you come exam time. He still was a caring professor though, so I can't say too much bad about him

this class was so hard. For summer it was an online 6 week class, with homework assignments and weekly kudu quizzes and an online final at the end (because of the hurricane quizzes 2 and 3, and 4 and 5 ended up being combined). Lectures were streamed on YouTube live and Tung is more focused on derivations than showing how to solve problems (although to be fair this has been my experience with all the UCLA physics profs I've had). The kudu quizzes were so hard not necessarily because the questions themselves were super hard but because they were a time crunch (I suspect to prevent people from cheating), so if you made a mistake in one of the questions you would not have a lot of time to go back and redo it. The final was also difficult and nothing like the kudu homework assignments or quiz questions. Class got up curved pretty heavily at the end, and Tung still had his policy of 65% required homework and anything extra is extra credit though so I can't complain too much. if you like physics you should be fine

I enjoyed Tung's lectures. Material is definitely difficult, but if you are attentive in lecture and keep up with all of the practice problems it isn't too bad.

NOTE: I took AP Physics 1 in high school, which covers the material in Physics 5A (and goes a bit beyond 5A material). Thus, your mileage may vary, especially if you've never taken a physics class harder than high school physics before.

Overall, I'd say Dr. Tung did a pretty good job at teaching 5A. The lectures in class were somewhat helpful, and the physical demonstrations played a large part in anchoring my understanding of the material. However, I'd say that the biggest source of help is going to come from your TA's- they're the ones that make the practice problems that will save you on the MT's and finals, and they're the ones you're going to be requesting help from (I'm of the opinion that Dr. Tung is generally somewhat cold when it comes to student interaction, based on my limited attempts to converse with him about course material- again, YMMV).

Oh, and the extra credit- he gives extra credit for participation in lecture via Kudu, and he gives you EC for homework if you do more than 65% of the assigned problems (according to him, the EC roughly equates to 2-3% if you max it out). It is annoying that you have to buy software to do the HW and whatnot, but at least you're getting some extra credit out of it.

I will say that the lab portion is rather... poorly organized. It really isn't the lab TA's fault-I think my lab TA (at least) did well with what he had. Rather, the main problem was that the lab was often ahead of the lecture by a lecture or two- that meant that we had to spend extra time reading in order to finish the prelabs (which could get real annoying if we had no idea what to do).

By far the hardest class I've taken at UCLA yet. Coming in with zero background knowledge in physics made for an extremely tough time in this class, which was likely exacerbated by my lack of proactivity (not doing discussion worksheets and not going to office hours when I probably needed to). If you put in consistent work from the beginning to the end though, you'll have a much easier time than I did.

Lectures: Tung will introduce the concept and the theory, derive the equation, do a couple of simple practice problems, and tie it all up neatly with a demonstration at the end of class. However, you need to put in much more work beyond the lecture to actually understand the material at the level you need for exams. Lectures provide the intro, the rest of the work is up to you. Not mandatory but he very occasionally (maybe 4 times) does in-class extra credit questions on Kudu
Discussions: TAs would assign worksheets and go over select problems from those worksheets during discussion. Shoutout to Andrew, who was a wonderful TA. Not mandatory but definitely recommended.
Homework: Tung would assign Kudu questions as homework that had an official due date at the end of the quarter. 6ish units with 25 - 30 questions per unit. The questions were pretty straightforward but it was very easy to get stuck working on your own. Do not wait until the last minute to do them.
Exams: I heard from others that Tung uses his past exam questions very frequently, so for people with access to an organization's test bank, the tests might not be so bad, but the level of knowledge required for the exam was so deep that it was insane. Exam questions far surpassed the difficulty of practice questions gone over in lecture and Kudu questions. The ones that were the closest were the discussion worksheets from the TAs, so the best form of preparation is to do those worksheets before going to discussions.
Grading Scheme (what I remember of it): 15% for each of the two midterms, 30% for the final, and 3% extra credit to the OVERALL GRADE if you complete all the Kudu homework questions

I would never take this class with Tung again, but if you've got a background in physics or are prepared to put the work in, you won't have a hard time getting an A.