Kusenko is one of the best professors I've had at UCLA, his lectures are engaging and his jokes are funny. If you pay attention in class and do the homework well you can get a good grade.

Professor Kusenko's an okay professor, better than most to be honest. His demonstrations are entertaining and he's quite humorous. His lectures, however, can get quite convoluted. He enjoys doing example problems and really get into the derivations, so you'll end up just copying his math barely trying to comprehend what he's doing so I would suggest to study up on the subject beforehand. His midterms are pretty easy and are often a variation of his in-class examples so the averages are pretty high, but his final is insanely difficult. I ended up guessing on half of it. However, the questions are not impossible, just very tricky. For instance, he ask about the oscillations of pouring mercury into a V-shaped tube so that requires application of both oscillation and pressure at the same time. Another question is integrating the electric field to find the electric potential of a charged non-conducting sphere with two cavities inside. Also another is to find the reacting force of a bucket of water when water is leaking out of it. I haven't done this but if I were to retake the class I would do all of the hard problems in the textbook and try to do trickier variations of these hard problems.

Overall, he's not a bad professor, perhaps even a good one compared to most professors at UCLA.

I am totally not a physics person. I have dropped this class three times...because the other professors were so bad! He totally made me understand the concepts...and I got an A. I never thought I would ever do well in physics...but it is possible with him. Take his class!

Alex is a wonderful professor!!!! He is thouroughly concerned about student learning and is always around for his office hours, though no one ever goes. He is more than clear in his explanations and his grading is more than fair. The people who think he's hard must either have a hard time showing up to class or are unable to ask questions of the professor. Alex is truly the best professor I have had at UCLA.

I am a 100% Physics dummy but with Professor Kusenko, nothing is impossible. He is a really funny and passionate physics teacher and he knows the stuff well. He doesn't use powerpoints so you really have to listen to him in lecture - in which some of the stuff may appear on midterms and finals. However, I do feel that he's jumping around topics so I did get slightly confused at times. Needed to youtube quite a few videos in order to clarify the concepts.

The course is composed of two midterms and one final. The exams were so much easier than I thought! About 1/4 of the people got 90%+ in the exams so yea. Prof Kusenko tells you exactly what chapters each question in the final would be from which made our lives so much easier.

Overall, I'm really happy with this course although I hate physics (not so much now)!

I dont know why this guys difficulty level is sooooo low. Everyone I talked to had a horrible time in this class, including myself. It is supposed to be CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS, but we did not learn one conceptual thing. It was ALL math. I thought he was hard to understand and difficult. The TAs were horrible. Sections did not help at all, except for if they went over the practice midterm, which was useless anyways. If you have not taken physics, or are not up on your trig skills.....DO NOT take this class. I prayed to pass it and studied hard.

Prof Kusenko is a very cool guy. He actually made physics enjoyable, which is a rare thing. I actually wanted to go to class, which is incredibly rare for a tired student. He explains everything thoroughly and writes nice and big on the board so you can see it clearly from way in the back of the classroom. His tests aren't tricky, but I don't like how each question is worth so many points, but c'est la vie. Overall, great professor, take his class, mmmmkay? :o)

This class was great. The book is basically a comic book on physics. Kusenko does all these experiments that try to prove a point. I would recommend going to class just to be entertained.

I liked how this class uses a lot of simple examples for its problems. This is effective because the concept is taught without any other complications like big or complex values for answers. You learn much if you aren't a science-oreiented person. Easy A, just practice doing the problems.

I totally LOVED this class. Kusenko showed many cool in-class demonstrations. His lectures were interactive and interesting. A really fun G.E.

I LOVED this class. I took this class as G.E. - Physics is a class I have always wanted to take (I never had the time in my schedule in high school), so I figured, hey, might as well give it a try with Physics 10. Sure, Kusenko isn't the best at explaining things (though come on, the guy worked at CERN - he is clearly to good to be teaching physics for psych majors anyways), but his passion for the subject is inspiring! Luckily, the T.A. explained everything really well (and we all had the same T.A.), so the fact that Kusenko himself wasn't the best at explaining was acceptable. He does a lot of interesting demos in class, tries his hardest to express upon us the joys of physics, and his tests really weren't that challenging. I would just re-do all the homework problems and the practice midterm in my studying, and ended up getting a pretty easy A in the class. If you have any interest in physics, I highly recommend you take this. I'm even thinking of trying my hand at Physics 1A next quarter.