PHYSICS 5A / TUNG, NATHAN C

Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy

How PHYSICS 5A grades when TUNG, NATHAN C teaches it. PHYSICS 5A, every instructor TUNG, NATHAN C, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.37adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

2,836 letter grades across 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.36 over 8,298 letter grades.

Raw average: 3.37; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 60.8%; A+, A and A minus out of 2836 letter grades.
D, F or W: 5.6%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 0.1%; 4 of 4 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+45 / 1.6%
A1,330 / 46.9%
A-348 / 12.3%
B+249 / 8.8%
B251 / 8.9%
B-180 / 6.3%
C+104 / 3.7%
C125 / 4.4%
C-46 / 1.6%
D+40 / 1.4%
D41 / 1.4%
D-50 / 1.8%
F27 / 1%
DR1 of 2,850
I9 of 2,850
P4 of 2,850

Percentages are of the 2,836 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR). They are excluded from GPA.

Term by term

Raw averages for the terms in this record. A missing term does not establish that this instructor did not teach it. Summer sessions are included when present.

Dashed line: course average across all instructors, 3.36.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20213.66387 letter grades.

Summer Session A 20223.48168 letter grades.

Fall 20223.81359 letter grades.

Fall 20233.32402 letter grades.

Winter 20243.30188 letter grades.

Spring 20243.06181 letter grades.

Fall 20243.02369 letter grades.

Winter 20253.21188 letter grades.

Fall 20253.27594 letter grades.

Is one term a guide to the next?

Across the measured corpus, the same course and instructor's term averages were strongly correlated, including terms several years apart. That is why the adjustment does not weight recent terms more heavily. This is a dataset-wide pattern, not a promise about this instructor's next class.

Teaching it in Fall 2026

Section

Lec 1

TR 8:00am-9:15am

Seats

Closed

302 of 302 enrolled

Seat risk

high risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (4)

Dis 1BM 3:00pm-3:50pmclosed: 76 of 76 enrolled

Dis 1DT 11:00am-11:50amclosed: 75 of 75 enrolled

Dis 1CT 10:00am-10:50amclosed: 76 of 76 enrolled

Dis 1AM 2:00pm-2:50pmclosed: 75 of 75 enrolled

Section

Lec 2

TR 9:30am-10:45am

Seats

Closed

303 of 303 enrolled

Seat risk

high risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (4)

Dis 2DT 5:00pm-5:50pmclosed: 75 of 75 enrolled

Dis 2AM 8:00am-8:50amclosed: 76 of 76 enrolled

Dis 2BM 11:00am-11:50amclosed: 76 of 76 enrolled

Dis 2CT 4:00pm-4:50pmclosed: 76 of 76 enrolled

Every PHYSICS 5A section and instructor

Reading these figures

Raw is the mean of the recorded letter grades. The adjusted historical GPA pulls an instructor's average toward the course's adjusted average, which itself uses a department prior. It is a comparison aid, not a calibrated prediction or a student rating. Small samples carry more uncertainty. All recorded instructor roles are included, and a section is counted only once for this instructor. Grades cannot establish workload or explain why outcomes differed.

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