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PHYSICS 5C · Lec 1

Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics

Fall 2026Shi, Q.5 units

Seats, time, final and grades

Seats

Closed.

176 of 176 · 1 over enrolled, lecture and all discussions summed.

Meets

MWF 12:00pm-12:50pm

Lecture only. You also attend a discussion, listed below.

Final

Thu 10 Dec, 3:00pm to 6:00pm

One exam for the whole class, Los Angeles time.

Read 19 hours ago.

Grades

3.47
predicted, this instructor · 520 grades

520 letter grades, Shi, Q..

Read 31 minutes ago. This is a recent reading, not a live seat count.

dibs has seen this section open 19 times since 17 August. The last time was 29 September.

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Before you can enroll

Registrar's Restrictions cell, read 19 hours ago: "Undergraduate Students Only".

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From the registrar

Wait lists are not possible because of the three-part structure (lecture, discussion, and laboratory). Students who retake Physics 5C must enroll in all three sections: lecture, discussion, and laboratory. Once enrolled, send an e-mail to mtran@physics.ucla.edu with your name, student ID number, and quarter in which you originally took the laboratory. You will be manually enrolled in the G99 laboratory. Any student attempting to hold a spot for another student is violating Student Conduct Code 102.23d and may be referred to the Office of the Dean of Students. See https://pa.ucla.edu/physics-and-astronomy-enrollment-information.html for more information.

Restrictions read 19 hours ago.

Discussions

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so the seat figure above is the sum across all of them and can read open while every discussion you could actually join is full.

4 discussions, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

No discussion is open. Whatever the lecture reads, there is currently nothing here to enroll in.
  • Dis 1A

    W 4:00pm-4:50pm

    Carranza, D.M.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1B

    W 5:00pm-5:50pm

    Carranza, D.M.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1C

    F 8:00am-8:50am

    Carranza, D.M.

    Closed.

  • Dis 1D

    F 9:00am-9:50am

    Carranza, D.M.

    Closed.

When it meets

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Meets: MWF 12:00pm-12:50pm

Kinsey Science Teaching Pavilion 1220B

Grades

3.47
predicted, this instructor · 520 grades

Of the 9 other people in the grade record for PHYSICS 5C, the 2 with the most grades: BAUER, DAVID JEFFREY at 3.27 over 1,077 grades and TUNG, NATHAN C at 3.49 over 951 grades.

A range
66%
P/NP
0%
D/F/W
2.9%

Full grade history for PHYSICS 5C

What students say

dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast it fills. For what the class is actually like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.

Workload, average. 3.0 of 5 for Qianhui Shi, where 5 is lightest. Read 30 days ago.

dibs has read this course’s reviews and none of them say what kind of work it sets, so dibs has nothing to show rather than a guess. Read from 202 reviews about 1 month ago. That is the reviewers being silent, and not a course that sets no work.

PHYSICS 5C reviews for Qianhui Shi Reviews for all professors of PHYSICS 5C

Will it still be here

high risk chance of closing before your enrollment pass.

Final enrollment per term from four years of grade data. Summer excluded: different population, different pass structure.

  • 18321F
  • 16522W
  • 17422S
  • 19122F
  • 18223W
  • 17623S
  • 14424W
  • 19524S
  • 14224F
  • 18725W
  • 19125S
  • 17525F
Enrollment by term: 21F 183, 22W 165, 22S 174, 22F 191, 23W 182, 23S 176, 24W 144, 24S 195, 24F 142, 25W 187, 25S 191, 25F 175

Peak 195 · most recent 25F at 175

Seats over time

Same seat count, but the status moved and came back and the seat count moved and came back over about 2 months

19 times reopened
176 of 176 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 02:571 Oct 17:22
dibs read 168 of the 179 hours its hourly record covers, 94%, and did not look in 11. dibs had no hourly record before 24 Sep, which is the other 907 of 1086 plotted.176 of 176 enrolled at the newest reading, 31 minutes ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 17:22, 176 to 176. dibs read 168 of the 179 hours its hourly record here covers, 94%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 11 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 24 September at 07:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 907 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist. Flat between dots joins recorded counts; changes between reads may be missed. The line starts when dibs first saw this section rather than reaching back before it existed. The last one is the last time dibs read this section, moved or not: 31 minutes ago.

Show the readings (43)
Recorded Enrolled Capacity Status Waitlist Hours read
1 Oct 17:22 176 176 closed - 43 of 46
29 Sep 20:10 176 176 closed - 2 of 2
29 Sep 19:00 175 176 open - 9 of 12
29 Sep 08:32 176 176 closed - 2 of 2
29 Sep 07:50 175 176 open - 8 of 10
28 Sep 22:22 176 176 closed - 1 of 1
28 Sep 22:20 175 176 open - 2 of 2
28 Sep 21:10 176 176 closed - 1 of 1
28 Sep 21:00 175 176 open - 4 of 5
28 Sep 17:10 176 176 closed - 2 of 2
28 Sep 16:20 175 176 open - 6 of 6
28 Sep 11:40 176 176 closed - 2 of 2
28 Sep 10:10 175 176 open - 51 of 51
26 Sep 08:52 176 176 closed - 1 of 1
26 Sep 08:10 175 176 open - 3 of 3
26 Sep 06:20 174 176 open - 3 of 3
26 Sep 04:40 175 176 open - 4 of 4
26 Sep 01:52 174 176 open - 5 of 5
25 Sep 21:30 176 176 closed - 3 of 3
25 Sep 19:50 175 176 open - 2 of 2
25 Sep 18:20 176 176 closed - 2 of 2
25 Sep 17:10 175 176 open - 3 of 3
25 Sep 15:22 176 176 closed - 4 of 4
25 Sep 12:40 175 176 open - 2 of 2
25 Sep 11:52 176 176 closed - 1 of 1
25 Sep 11:50 175 176 open - 1 of 1
25 Sep 11:00 176 176 closed - 3 of 4
25 Sep 08:30 175 176 open - 25 of 873, 847 no hourly record
20 Aug 00:55 176 176 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 23:55 175 176 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 19:55 176 176 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 18:55 175 176 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 15:55 176 176 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 14:55 175 176 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 13:55 176 176 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 12:55 175 176 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 10:55 176 176 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 09:55 175 176 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 08:55 176 176 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 07:55 175 176 open - no hourly record
19 Aug 06:55 176 176 closed - no hourly record
19 Aug 01:55 175 176 open - no hourly record
17 Aug 12:32 176 176 closed - -
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