REVIEW FOR PHYSICS 1B (no listing for 1B in registrar database):
Professor Musumeci is a wonderful teacher who is greatly accomplished in his field but retains the ability to connect with a far less educated audience. He does not rely on slides to teach and instead draws on a digital whiteboard and derives formulas live. Exams are very fair, and even more fairly graded. There are 2 midterms and one final. Homework consists of 8 questions per week of moderate to high difficulty. Overall, I highly recommend choosing Professor Musumeci as your instructor for this course!

Musumeci is by my favorite physics professor I've taken physics with. His first midterm was very easy but the second was a lot more difficult. I think it is clear he cares about his students and explaining concepts as best as he can. I would note that his handwriting is a bit messy and hard to read sometimes, but you do get used to it. I really enjoyed his class and you can tell he is very knowledgeable but also a clear explainer. He is passionate about physics. I would recommend reviewing example problems he goes over in lecture and homework questions. He likes to use questions that combine several topics on exams. Overall I would definitely recommend taking physics 1b with this professor

this dude is funny! haha. i only went to a few lectures but he was cool. The average on the midterms was around 70%. he has my recommendation

Hands down, one of my favorite upper-div professors. The material is difficult (105A and B), but he explains it pretty well and assigns very good homework problems. I like how he doesn't bother with really bullshit topics. He'll ask fair questions on the midterm that are homework-difficulty, so if you can do the harder homework problems without the solutions manual, then you'll do well. Take him if you can; I wish he taught all the upper-div physics classes.
He's also hilarious and nice and seems to enjoy the class as well as his students.

Just wanted to help all those people with a first pass that couldn't get corbin. Corbin's the best, but differently your second choice should be Holczer, yes he's hard to understand but every class I took with him the majority got A's. I love Musumeci as a professor, but only like 15 out of 150 got A's, it was the worst curve ever, or maybe it was just my bad luck. My other friends also took Jura and said he was also easy. Btw when I say it was easy I mean regarding the professor, because physics 1A itself is not an easy class.

Musumeci is a good professor. He has an accent and is limited in some respects with the English language, but if you ask questions and listen carefully, he is an easy professor to understand. He is very smart and actually very funny. His jokes catch you off guard and he is just a hilarious person. I mean very funny for some reason. lol anyways he has my recommendation.

Professor Musumeci is a great teacher. He has an accent, but you can understand him most of the time, and his accent makes the lectures more interesting. Most of the time he will try to keep students interested. His tests are not too easy or too hard, but I recommend that you take the time to study for it. There are three questions on midterms, just like other physics teachers.
Reading will greatly help in this class, but the problems Musumeci does in class are very similar to what appears on tests. He also provides old tests for students to study. Students would have to use Mastering Physics to do homework, but thats as worst as it gets. Otherwise, I recommend him over other teachers if you want a class that isn't difficult.

Professor Musumeci really wants you to learn the material in physics, and usually does it by getting to the core of the course aka - he does many derivations, but they do eventually help you in the end. He makes the class interesting to be a part of and is very willing to help you during his office hours. He's a very blunt person though, so make sure you know exactly what you want to ask or talk about during OH. I would recommend his class, mainly because his tests are difficult but doable, and are challenging but very helpful for the final. He also puts past midterms from last quarters up on the website for students to practice with, which I found very helpful. Overall, he enjoys teaching physics, and those who take his class may find it enjoyable as well.

Musumeci was a great professor; my favorite of my first year at UCLA. He's a young Italian guy with a sweet accent, and very funny. He also cares a lot about student learning, and is a good lecturer. some people complain that his tests were hard, but that is not completely true. The tests are slightly more complicated than the homework, and if you understand the concepts and can conceptually think, you'll do fine. However, he does not curve generously. He told us after the first midterm that too many people got A's, and that only about 7 or 8 students should get A's. I thought I got an A easily, but ended up with a B+.

Alright flat out. I got a C+ in his class. I know, I know, most of you are thinking "blasphemy" but honestly I was never so glad to get a C+ in my life. I struggled constantly at the beginning of this course after having switched from being an English major to a Mathematics Major and since I took him late in the year I hadn't taken used any math since the AP tests senior year. I got around approx. an F or D on the first midterm and right on the mean on the second midterm. Fortunately Musumeci has a policy that if you show improvement throughout the course that he will take that into consideration when making the final grades. I now feel that if I were to retake the class that I would get at least a B in it.
Musumeci is Italian and hence has an accent which everyone seems to comment on so I thought I might as well too. It does not really impact the class though, I sat in the back row a few times when I was late and I could still understand him. However I do suggest getting to class on time if not early because the chalkboards can get really dirty over time making his writing difficult to make out sometimes.
His midterms and are not overly hard there usually just tends to be one little trick to each of the questions which is what elevates them past the level of a homework question. If you do enough practice problems and study the material you should do well. The biggest challenge going into the midterms is time management. You have one hour to answer three questions and this is where moderation is key. On the first midterm I spent too much time on the first question, which I got nearly full points on, but got almost no points whatsoever on the other 2/3 of the test. On the second midterm I rushed through all the questions quickly and went over them once or twice but on all of them I missed one vital portion of each question which brought me down to the mean(Ex: I got the properties of an inelastic and elastic collision mixed up on a short answer subquestion and missed several points due to that despite doing all the calculations right in the actual problem itself, I forgot about a small amount of gravitational force in the problem as a block was moved up an inclined plane, which exudes friction).
As everyone stated he has a good sense of humor which makes the course very entertaining. For anyone taking Physics 1A, I have to say that Musumeci is one of the best professors out there. I've heard of professors that utilize equations from math classes that are beyond the required and are not as caring as him.