Tung definitely is an engaging professor- he does a lot of cool demos in class, which I really enjoyed. He is also helpful- he answers questions during the 5 minute break/the end of class and is more than willing to help during his virtual office hours. Overall, I liked him, but the class is VERY content dense and moves extremely fast. Knowing what to focus on when studying for tests is a challenge, so staying on top of the kudu readings is key. He also offers ~3% extra credit for answering online questions in class and for doing more than the required amount of hw.

TLDR: Don't take the class, waste of time take a class with a bad prof and teach yourself since you will have to teach yourself in this class too

just don't that's my opinion. I came from horrible physics professors ie Freiman etc and yet he managed to be worse. He thinks he is a god at lecturing and because of that he justifies giving exams which are actually hell. For example the final and second midterm weren't evenly spaced out on the material at all. Like bro? For a cumulative final I expect the content to be spread out.

He is a mid lecturer at best. He goes way too much time going into derivations of formulas and teaches us barely any skills on learning how to solve a single physics problem. Don't worry though you can derive a formula though!! His discussion worksheets were irrelevant to the course where the TA's would be like "yea idk why he gave you this"

Don't even get me started on Kudu. This man straight up goes "my lectures accompany Kudu and Kudu accompanies my lectures" so now I have to read a terrible textbook ifykyk and deal with his derivation heavy lectures. At least with bad lecturers, you can teach yourself from the book. But nope not with this class!

The practice problems from Kudu and the discussion worksheets are nothing like the exams. But don't worry he won't give you a practice test because "Kudu is practice enough"

This man is the definition of ego issues too. He should not be a prof

Dr. Tung is a passionate lecturer and cares about learning, but this is a challenging and content-heavy course. Homework is not very time-consuming, but understanding the concepts beyond that can be. Something that helped me was attending his office hours. They were hosted over Zoom at a convenient time. The few times I attended, there were little to no people in attendance. He was very attentive to my questions and provided explanations from different angles than in lecture.

He also hosted a lengthy final review stream, which was so considerate! He gave a few hints about the final material, but ultimately the final was far beyond my abilities. It almost seemed a little unfair as the last unit was not tested evenly. Nonetheless, I believe he curved the final. To succeed on the tests, really understand the discussion questions and his "Nathan's Notes" pdf, not the homework! He often glosses over problems in lecture, so discussion questions are really the only place you'll see problems that he "likes." He often writes the discussion questions and relates them to what he wants you to know.

In terms of exam difficulty, I do believe Dr. Tung was just doing his best to satisfy the physics department policy (class mean must be around B-). However, he also tried to reward proof of understanding. He would even give points if we wrote out our thoughts in English, and mostly full credit if we just erred in computation. Also, 2-3% extra credit was available (which theoretically could bring the class mean to B).

Tung was the best prof. I could have asked for. You won't regret taking him

Nathan is a fantastic lecturer. He is funny and engaging and when he explains things it feels like a science documentary (in a good way). Homework was on mastering physics and he worked with us to make it a manageable amount which we all really appreciated. Tests are average difficulty as far as the physics series goes here and he puts a lot of effort into getting us prepared through review sessions. I recommend taking 1C with him.

Hands down the best professor I've had through the Physics 1 series. Tung is an engaging, interesting, and humorous lecturer. I genuinely enjoyed and made an effort to show up to his class.

Nathan Tung is my TA for physics 1C in Spring 2019. He is absolutely the best TA I've ever had at UCLA. He just has the magic to make the most difficult physical concepts simple, clear and interesting. I always walked out of his discussion feeling that I had much deeper understanding of the material. It's a pure enjoyment to attend his discussion and I would 10/10 recommend him. If you're not convinced, just check out his physics 1C reviews: https://www.bruinwalk.com/professors/david-bauer/physics-1c/
I'm really shocked to see that he got such low rating at Physics 5C. It could be that he made the exams too hard or wrongly estimated his students' physics background. I believe that he will do better next time teaching because he is so enthusiastic about teaching. I'd still recommend him for he is such an amazing lecturer.