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

Musumeci is a great in class lecturer. I could follow him much better than Corbin and he was funny and gave cool demos. His tests were also reasonable. The Mastering Physics is of course an overpriced piece of crap but the homework problems were still useful in preparing for his tests. His lecture notes are useful and pretty organized. He is the best physics professor I have had at UCLA. He honestly teaches better in big groups - I found him to be not that approachable during office hours.

His course is not particularly difficult until the second half of the material, for Diffraction and Interference. He knows what he is talking about, but for these sections specifically, it is hard to grasp what he is saying and his pictures suck.

Otherwise, his midterms are straightforward, but again, by the second half of the course, it's hard to know what formulas are relevant.