Fyl is an absolute pleasure of a man. Truly one of the most entertaining professors I have ever had. His class was the only one I showed up to, not to listen to the lectures, but to see and interact with Fyl. The class was relatively easy (certainly easier than Dr. B's 119 class). Midterm was fair and took like 40 min and final was about the same.

I never showed up to the lecture . The midterm is trivial I finish it in like 20 minutes. The final is bit longer but can definitely finish in 1.5 hour.

Fyl's 150 involves soft matter physics, which is an area that become increasingly popular in recent years. Fyl himself is a renowned soft matter theorist and is therefore the perfect professor for the class. There is no final and most people get an A in the end. After taking his other classes I suspect that he is the easiest professor at UCSB

Fyl is a very friendly professor and tries his best to help his students. Some people complain the exam is too hard but it is actually reasonable if you go to lecture and section and study hard. Moreover, he curves generously so even if you did terribly on an exam (say 20%) you can still pass the class. Very easy A+ overall.

Used a textbook made for bio majors. Homework from textbook, lectures have nothing to do with the book. His handwriting is the worst. Nobody could read them so he agreed to post his lecture notes online. THEY WERE EVEN WORSE. Exams? They definitely aren't from the book so I assume they're from the lectures, not that anyone understood them.

Downright awful. Used a book designed for Bio type classes instead of the usual physics book that actually makes sense. Lectures are completely obtuse and are unrelated to homework and sections. All homework was from the terrible textbook, but the exams had nothing in common with this homework.

He taught in a cavalier manner and when he could not answer a student's question he waved it away. His inability or reluctance to explain certain concepts the class did not grasp caused confusion. Everything was verbatim from the text book and then over half of the tests had nothing to do with the class material. This made it difficult to succeed.

He teaches straight from the book, he only gives homework out of the book, and then his test have nothing to do with the book. Terrible instructor.

he is the only professor who said "oh, everything is from the book, you dont even need to come to class..." However, NOTHING in his lecture was from the book, neither was any homework. The final was like OMG!! A+ is probably a 40% ?

He did go on tangents but that didnt matter, he tests were really easy (they didnt have number only letters, some people i guess makes this hard but i liked it). he is a good professor and really really smart man, he shouldnt each undergrad classes though.

Terrible, just terrible. I'm pretty sure most if not EVERYONE failed. Class had no organization. it felt like he just rambled on every lecture. Textbook also sucked

I used to like physics. Horible tests, TA's admitted that everyone failed...not many coherent thoughts or ideas conveyed with any remnent of clarity in lectures...and thats when hes even there