Dr. Lubin is seriously dedicated to his students. The lecture mood is extremely welcoming, and his research interests are fascinating. The negative comments are from unappreciative people; the coursework itself is nothing to complain about. A very rare experience to have an incredibly knowledgeable prof that loves students.

Probably my favorite physics professor so far. He does go on long tangents during lecture but they're applicable to the material we're learning. Doesn't really derive equations very often so reading the textbook is pretty necessary if you want to do well. Exams are difficult but fair.

Literally one of the worst professors in UCSB. Does not even talk about physics in a physics class. It is super embarrassing to pay for this man to teach us physics. Our tuition goes to a man who talks about literally any other topic because it is interesting to him. Also encourages self studying and gives hours of homework to do. Avoid this man

This class was super easy, I did the work once a week. The midterm was relatively easy and the lectures are straightforward and there was no final. If you've done basic math like algebra 2 and so forth you should be fine, especially if you took a physics class.

Horrible. There was no syllabus at the beginning, and they changed how our grading was throughout the quarter. Long & boring lectures, I stopped watching because they didn't help. The website we used cost money and was easy. Easy class but poorly taught.

Aside from not providing us with a syllabus whatsoever, Professor Lubin, as the rest of these reviews state, gave horribly long lectures that had really nothing to do with the content. There are a couple homework chapters that get fairly tough when it comes to math, but the rest of it is mindless busy work that takes forever to finish.

A very kind professor but not the best at teaching since he got distracted easily and went off on tangents of what he found interesting rather than what was helpful to the class. Quiet and boring lecturer.

This prof teaches this class almost exclusively to electrical eng and expects all students to have same background. Often takes tangents for over 40 mins. Didn't derive anything all quarter, just talks a lot and reads from unclear slides. Also has papers due weekly, which are harshly graded and no feedback given. takes 5+ weeks to return grades.

Makes you write a small weekly essay in addition to MasteringPhysics homework. Goes off on long tangents during lectures and never shows example problems in class. Instead just verbally explains concepts. Powerpoints are vague. Exams are ok but it's a lot of self studying. I'm sure he's a great researcher though.

He goes off on random tangents during class. Doesnt teach most of what is on the homework.

I feel like Prof. Lubin sometimes get's a bad rap, he can be a little boring sometimes but he is really passionate about what he is talking about. Go to office hours! He is super nice and genuinely wants to help. Warning: final was A LOT harder than the midterm (which was pretty easy) but there was a fat curve on the final which made up for it

Homework was a piece of cake but the absurdly difficult, 110 question final worth 50% of your grade was not. Lectures are hilariously useless, as the professor goes off on tangents for 3/4 of the class. The only way I managed to scrape by was by reading the chapters over & over again, and still the final seemed impossible. Save yourselves!

Awful professor. most monotone voice makes you fall asleep. Homework is pretty easy but the 110 question final was not at all. overall boring class, not interesting at all.

Very nice guy, very good at lecturing. BUT never talked about material relevant to class, instead taught random other things. Would have loved him as a lecturer on material that he wanted to teach, but PHYS 3 material was sadly not what he wanted to teach. Very generous with curve on final, so despite being self-study not a difficult class.

Like a typical UCSB physics class, the professor doesn't really teach and you just have to read the book and do the problems on masteringphysics. He ends up picking on random people in class, so try not to draw attention to yourself if you don't want that. It gets extremely awkward at times. Was very generous on the final with extra credit problems

One of the worst "teachers" I've ever had. He spent ZERO lecture time on relevant concepts. He's a nice guy who only teaches because the university forces him, but he seems to understand that and so he grades pretty generously. It's very doable to pass if you read the text and do HW problems. His tests are a terribly written, but curved generously.

I took Lubin for PHYS 6B, and received a high A by reading the book thoroughly, going over his slides multiple times, and mastering the sapling. His lectures are not that informative, he spends too much time talking about the math behind the concepts. KNOW THE CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF A TOPIC. MTs/Final were very tough, but huge curve.

Not only did he show up to class about 10 minutes late every day, he would spend the remainder of the lecture picking on students to do conversions in their head and barely taught us any physics. GO TO CLAS! it will save your life.

Good old, lube. Philip should not teach, but if you must take him don't worry too much. He lets you have a note sheet on the tests that you can basically write anything on. He talks about calc in an algebra class and goes off on tangents. He is literally the exact opposite of Bibilashvili, but at least his test are fairly easy. You won't learn.

This professor is the most amazing person I have ever met. He has a refreshing sense of humor and actually teaches how to apply physics to the real world. If you want to learn all the boring equation manipulations, just use Sapling! The professor is there to help clarify the subject matter, not waste their time working through lame problem sets.

Terrible lecturer, the worst explainer I have ever encountered, and just all around very lazy. How do you get around all that? Redo all Sapling problems, utilize CLAS, and redo all his iClicker questions. Use the textbook if it helps you too. You'll get above the average on the tests if you do all this, but it's highly recommended you avoid him.

Professor Lubin is the worst professor I have ever had. He's rude, especially in office hours, and clearly does not care about his students. He does NOT teach! He just goes through useless slides about trivial and unimportant facts the entire class period. I had to teach myself everything from the textbook. NEVER take a class he teaches!

Lubin is the worst professor I have ever had. Not only can he be really rude and disrespectful (i.e. calling people out in class and being at least 5-10 min late on a very regular basis), his lectures don't really apply to what the class should be. He teaches more calculus based physics when 6B is an algebraic physics class for biology majors.

I really did not enjoy Lubin as a professor. He's not terrible, he's engaging and speaks clearly but lectures are confusing and unrelated accompanied with really poor humor. Not the best teaching style imo for physics. Lectures are composed of deriving equations and calculus. Tests are MC and ok if you can learn from textbook