Worst experience of my physics career. Often posted homework late with minimal extension. Poorly organized lectures, poor textbook, and worthless examples/hw. Tests required pointless memorization and were often unclear -- the material is easy, so it seemed that to make it difficult she required blindly memorizing 30+ lengthy eqns. Never again.

She may well be a good person and a good researcher, but she should absolutely not be teaching an undergraduate intro course of this nature. Constantly absent from lecture, when she was present her lecture style was confusing and useless compared to reading the textbook(although I still attended). Not worth skipping a qtr but avoid if possible.

This class was.... hard. Everyone stopped going to lecture because she was never there. The tests were crazy hard and felt super out of the class's depth, and she said she would curve and did not. UCSB should just let people stay researchers, some of these profs are geniuses, but are just... incapable of teaching.

Arguably, it was the hardest class I've taken at the school. She's a good person, but I don't think her teaching style helps students learn the material. The second midterm and final were very tough even though I did study quite a bit for each one. Just say a prayer if you're in one of her classes.