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PHYSICS 5B / SAMANI, JOSHUA FRED

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

How PHYSICS 5B grades when SAMANI, JOSHUA FRED teaches it. PHYSICS 5B, every instructor SAMANI, JOSHUA FRED, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.29adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

2,369 letter grades across 8 terms, Winter 2022 to Spring 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.42 over 7,166 letter grades.

Raw average: 3.29; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 55.1%; A+, A and A minus out of 2369 letter grades.
D, F or W: 4.7%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 0.3%; 5 of 7 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+121 / 5.1%
A819 / 34.6%
A-365 / 15.4%
B+239 / 10.1%
B297 / 12.5%
B-134 / 5.7%
C+101 / 4.3%
C115 / 4.9%
C-66 / 2.8%
D+32 / 1.4%
D29 / 1.2%
D-8 / 0.3%
F43 / 1.8%
I22 of 2,398
NP2 of 2,398
P5 of 2,398

Percentages are of the 2,369 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), 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

Winter 20223.40329 letter grades.

Winter 20233.35333 letter grades.

Spring 20233.21366 letter grades.

Winter 20243.43394 letter grades.

Spring 20243.12373 letter grades.

Fall 20243.36194 letter grades.

Winter 20253.29192 letter grades.

Spring 20253.15188 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 Spring 2026

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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.

What students say

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