really bad teacher but a nice guy, he seems do not know how to teach at all and not confident about what he is teaching, I am really questioning the knowledge base of this professor, he does not seem know too much about what he is saying.

First and hardest physics class. Physics 20 is made to push some people leave the major. Monreal was a nice professor although he can be intimidating sometimes. Lectures are fine, iclicker questions were hard and were 30% of grade... Curve was amazing so don't worry if your midterm average is below C. Have to try in his class.

Lectures were confusing and somewhat irrelevant to the material on the homework and tests. This may be because he cants you to "get intuition", rather than showing us concrete examples and/or applications of what he's teaching. Large curve, but a hard class since I had to teach myself a lot of it out of the textbook. Graded iClicker questions too.

Had him for 21, 22 & 24. "I want you guys to have intuition for this," he continually says, & tries to teach you how to solve problems (ineffectively) w/o actually trying to teach much physics. You're better off learning it yourself but he forces you into lecture w/ iClickers worth at least 20% of your grade. "Ben curve" saves. Nice guy, but avoid.

Honestly Monreal would be a good teacher if he was teaching second grade physics. The problem is that the material is tough and he prefers to "teach" problem solving over physics, which really cant be learned through listening. Furthermore, clicker questions are graded and worth 30-50% of your grade and have little to no relation to the textbook

A nice guy