PHYSICS 5B / BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY

Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics

How PHYSICS 5B grades when BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY teaches it. PHYSICS 5B, every instructor BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.28adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

917 letter grades across 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Winter 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.42 over 7,166 letter grades.

Raw average: 3.28; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 52.6%; A+, A and A minus out of 917 letter grades.
D, F or W: 2.8%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 0.1%; 0 of 1 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+111 / 12.1%
A265 / 28.9%
A-106 / 11.6%
B+89 / 9.7%
B83 / 9.1%
B-96 / 10.5%
C+53 / 5.8%
C57 / 6.2%
C-31 / 3.4%
D+3 / 0.3%
D12 / 1.3%
D-1 / 0.1%
F10 / 1.1%
I8 of 926
NP1 of 926

Percentages are of the 917 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: no-passes (NP) and incompletes (I). 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, 3.42.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20212.99174 letter grades.

Fall 20223.74180 letter grades.

Spring 20243.22180 letter grades.

Fall 20243.19189 letter grades.

Winter 20253.23194 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

MWF 2:00pm-2:50pm

Seats

Open

2 seats left.

200 of 202 enrolled

Seat risk

high risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (4)

Dis 1CR 11:00am-11:50amclosed: 60 of 60 enrolled

Dis 1BT 1:00pm-1:50pmopen: 1 seat left.

Dis 1AT 12:00pm-12:50pmopen: 1 seat left.

Dis 1DR 5:00pm-5:50pmclosed: 47 of 47 enrolled

Section

Lec 2

MWF 4:00pm-4:50pm

Seats

Open

1 seat left.

201 of 202 enrolled

Seat risk

high risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (4)

Dis 2AT 2:00pm-2:50pmclosed: 47 of 47 enrolled

Dis 2CR 10:00am-10:50amclosed: 60 of 60 enrolled

Dis 2DR 12:00pm-12:50pmclosed: 48 of 48 enrolled

Dis 2BT 5:00pm-5:50pmopen: 1 seat left.

Every PHYSICS 5B 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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