Very hard teacher. Doesn't spend time to review homework and even if you answer the question right on the test, he will find something wrong with it and mark you down. If there is nothing wrong, he will make something up!

I studied my HARD for a test, and i get an F (not like 50% F, more around 25%). In 142, it's all written concept questions, so he can nitpick all he wants. It also seems that he shows favortism towards girls, because a girl who knows less then me did much better and passed the class(where i dropped)

we walk into class and he says this is the mass and circumference of the earth and there are 8 fl oz in a cup..how many cups of water are in the ocean..you got 5 min. no calculator..if oyu cant do it then leave my class..thats what this maniac did the first day of the night class..

Wow... just wow. I have never seen a professor like this before.. We are on week 6 out of 18 and we are still on the first chapter. Unclear, painfully long lectures and explanations. He hands out packets that are hand written and filled with errors and hard to ready handwriting. He will make you hate physics with everything you have inside you.

Don't take physics at ohlone, transfer somewhere else.

One good thing is you only need 50% on tests to pass the class with C, but it is so freaking hard to even get C on the tests. His handwriting is so TERRIBLE. It is hard to concentrate on his handwriting and his voice at the same time. VERY TIRING course. He thinks we are smart or whatever. Unclear long lectures and difficult exams, just don't take

He's a great teacher and knows his stuff, BUT his exams are ruthless! There were 28 people at the start and 10 at the end. First exam, 17 failed and 11 passed. Exams are heavily conceptual and barely computational like other phys classes. Grades the exam with no mercy, just nothing but slashes! Say

This is the first time I realized that whatever professor you have can have a huge impact on your future. Other physic classes in Ohlone have half of the class getting A. And in Desmedt more than half of the class ends up dropping the class since they will end up failing it if they stayed. Grades might not be everything, but its impossible to pass!

Dr. Desmedt is honestly a nice guy, and genuinely wants his students to pass. However, he's very difficult to learn from. He'd spend a majority of the time on concepts theoretically, and would speed through actual problems making it hard to follow. Tests were similar to the questions he'd assigned, but modified to be way harder. Avoid at all costs

I've been studying at Ohlone for 4 years and I've taken many classes so far. Honestly, this professor is the WORST I ever took.

He knows his stuff. Can not teach. If you take this class, ask as many questions possible. Very frustrating course acts like we should know physics beforehand.

As having a high GPA, this professor is the only reason I could not go to Berkeley. The material he teaches is nearly impossible to find on online sites/videos. He demotivates me to pursue a career in engineering since he gives complex problems. Wrote on exam to drop his class with ferocious red slash marks across paper. Take physics elsewhere.

Focus on lecture guys

He's a great physicist, I'll give him that. He knows what he talking about, but he just cannot teach. I struggle to keep up with his lectures because so much of it is theoretical. Spends too little time doing word problems, and talks more about the history/theory of it.

He has such a passion for physics that he just can't teach it properly. He makes his own difficult exams. Handwriting is hard to read too.

Luc Desmedt seems to be a decent professor, but he grades homework assignments very mediocrely and midterms very, VERY hard. Please follow him up VERY carefully. If you don't, FIND SOME OTHER PHYSICS PROFESSOR THAT TEACES YOU VERY WELL!!!

Mr. Desmedt focuses heavily on his lectures for tests and quizzes. I literally wasted money on a textbook; only buy an access code. He is always late to class, and 75% of the class dropped in the second week. Rambles throughout his lectures and ends up not being relative to the material you need to know. He assumes you know Calculus.

Wanted to warn those in the future: class is only lectures and labs are 3+ hours of lectures. Exams are from lectures, NOT the textbook. Some of the homework is not even from the lectures and you would need to learn from the examples on Pearson. Terrible handwriting: people got problems wrong because he wrote numbers as variables. Confuses class.

Professor comes in late 90% of the time. Makes a lot of excuses regarding whether he is absent or not. Does not make an effort to actually contact students. Your time and money will be wasted; I wouldnt recommend taking his class.

Worst decision of my life to take this class. Overly complicates problems for an intro class, which can drag on for an hour +. Try your best to avoid to class and life will be much better for you.

So, this teacher is a good guy but it is laughable how bad of a teacher he is, I would find myself in class laughing because Id find out he gives pop quizzes and exams and homework on things he hasnt taught and he admits it. He expects you to teach yourself. If hes your only choice at ohlone, find another school. Dont waste the money.

This teacher is so self aware that his class is so hard to pass to the point he has created a forgiving grading system. Your grade will be boosted a whole letter grade, however, you still wont pass, , dont let the teacher give you hope or fool u into continuing his class. Stay away.

This teacher will lecture for 3 hours and youll only understand about 20 mins of it because he just writes a bunch of stuff down without explaining it and hardly ever gives students examples to try the material for themselves. Waste of time and money, the textbook is better at teaching and u dont even use it.

RUN AWAY!!!! He's the worst. You cannot read what he writes, worst handwriting ever, and there's no way to make sense of it. Sure, nice guy, but English is his second language, and you know it when he writes his horrid handouts that are messy, unedited and drone on about things that have nothing to do with the real work. RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!

Professor Desmedt is the worst professor at Ohlone, I have taken physics before and an English professor could teach it better than he can. The class is "Algebra based" but he expects you to understand calculus at a high level and be able to derive equations at a physics major level. Grading is unfair, I got the highest grade and still got a B :/

Let's start with the handwriting. He's probably left handed and hasn't realized it yet. Let's then move to the feedback. There's none. Considering he replies to emails quite rapidly, this is doubly puzzling. I have assignments from months ago that he hasn't graded, let alone talked about. Then there's the abandonment of the textbook.

Took him during the COVID. He gave a bunch of assignments each week instead of exams due to the situation, which i guess is better. But you can't understand his handwriting. Doesn't reply back to emails. DOesn't enter grades so I was worried the entire semester about how I was doing. Struggled to get an A. Take someone with better reviews:/

Hes a Moran, through the whole time of teaching he talks to himself, if you want to fail and feel like human waste take his class.

If you really care about learning and physics dont take his class then. You gonna fail the class no matter what.

His class is More of European History class than Physics,

I went to Ohlone from 2017-2018 and recently graduated from a top-tier UC. I had the misfortune of taking Prof. Desmedt for Physics 141. I blame him for giving me a horrendous foundation in E&M. This is a critical course for engineers, but he is a highly incompetent educator. He will make you hate physics. Please: avoid at all costs.

Don't know what he's teaching, especially on Zoom.

Worst class at Ohlone College. Lectures are very difficult to comprehend due to his handwriting. He goes off on random tangents about random topics so it is hard to follow. He is a very tough grader and expects you to follow his exact methods for problems.

If you guys want to listen stories of this professor life take him. If you guys want to learn physics then find another professor. He always criticize your high school professors insult students while lecture. Always try to put student down. instead giving students confidence he try to make them feel bad.

The worst class I have ever taken. He has terrible notes and lectures that don't make any sense. Do not take him, you won't learn any physics. He makes people feel bad when they ask for help. I have to teach myself through Khan Academy.

Grades way too harshly on exams. He is way too specific for them and his lectures don't make any sense.

His lectures are confusing I don't understand. When I asked for help I still didn't understand. Take another physics prof. Literally any other.

Not a good professor. Talks and talks like he's trying to make you fall asleep. I appreciate his effort at trying to make you laugh every once in a while but somehow manages to use six hours of lecture a week constantly talking non-stop while staying on the same PDF for almost an hour and a half. His handwriting is not readable. Take someone else.

Do not take without previous Physics experience. Explains physics very badly, hard to comprehend. Only able to survive with past physics knowledge and chegg. Only three tests (2 midterms and final). Lectures are completely useless, rambles, goes over one ridiculous problem per 3 hour lecture.

This professor remains true to many of the reviews, he is very difficult to understand during lecture. His lectures consist of long and boring topics, one of my biggest problems is that he goes on random tangents about unrelated topics, or nags about another teacher or person for 30+ minutes, and manages to only do one problem in 3 hr sesh.

This guy will berate you for breathing in his class. All the midterms so far, you can literally get the right answer for every question but the prof will knock half ur points off because you didnt have the work thats the way he wants it. Doesnt care for his students, and thinks he invented calculus. reevaluate ur life before you take his class

Worst professor you could ever pick at Ohlone. This guy purposefully makes physics a million times harder than it actually is. Instead of showing us how to solve physics problems, he spends his time showing us where the formulas came from and the rest ranting about random things. He'll spend only 10 minutes per lecture explaining the problem.

He is too smart for his own good, He will go off tangent in lectures, so my recommendation is to go to his office hours where you can actually get him to answer or clarify stuff. Other than that, his tests are extremely hard, and if they are in groups most of the times, which means your group intelligence level reflects the grade you get.

I personally don't recommend Desmedt. His handwriting is terrible. He lectures, and lectures and lectures and doesn't want to stop. Even if someone wants to ask a question, he would not stop. His exams were hard and you have to follow his expectations. If you take good notes and actually pay attention, you'll be able to pass his class easily.

Do not take his class! His handwriting is so BAD it is impossible to read, the exams and NEVER like any homework problems or examples. He dislikes the fact that his students use the textbook or outside sources to learn, he will make you feel bad!! His lectures are so sloppy, long and boring. Super bad teacher and he knows it.

Unorganized and unforgiving when it comes to grading. Syllabus is so confusing it is hard to figure out were assignments are. Made me upset is that he clearly states, whatever he is teaching will be on assignments and test. Meaning you try to study anywhere else, it will be useless because its not from him. What he teaches, not on the test as well.

DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS!!!! The 5 star reviews below are fake reviews made by him. How do I know? 30 min of our lecture time was wasted so he could complain about how the reviews here were extremely biased and how students "don't appreciate my attention to detail". Don't waste your money or time! Luc is out of his mind and should stop teaching.

By far THE worst professors at Ohlone. All the good reviews are sponsored by Luc himself as he said "I don't know why my rmp score is low they should do something about that" and he took it upon himself to boost his score. Midterms are one of the most difficult you will receive average score of 30%. Lecture notes are also impossible to understand

DON'T TAKE HIS CLASS!!!! Luc is absolutely out of his mind and should refrain from teaching permanently. Be prepared to take notes for 2 hours on 1 problem when we were supposed to cover 5 different problems. Don't do as I did and take his class because no other teachers were available. The best thing to do is wait another semester.

If you guys want a good and reasonable grade, you shouldn't take his class. He's super LAZY guy so we were unable to see our score for midterm and final term until the end of the due date of final grade. He will persuade you guys to keep his course mentioning "almost you guys can get a A". -> It was totally fake. 3 guys in the class only got a A.

This man has the worst handwriting in the world.

Spare yourself the pain and don't take this professor.

Forget everything else, just his handwriting alone will make you hate life.

This professor is long winded and leaves the class confused after every lecture. Lecture is spent on 1, maybe 2 word problems. Never grades. Over halfway thru the term and not a single grade in besides what Pearson auto-grades. Terrible handwriting. 10-20 minutes of each lecture is him rambling and justifying his teaching methods or decisions.

His handwriting is illegible.

He doesn't upload grades for anything until the last day it is due on purpose so people don't drop his class which really sucks. I've been stressed and anxious the whole semester because I have no idea what my grade is.

This is the worst professor you will ever take in the world. His lectures are long and all over the place. He hasn't graded a single assignment or test and we are over halfway through the term. He keeps making excuses like he was sick or busy. He never actually grades, which is a coward's move just so people don't drop.

I will never take class with this professor ever. He will not grate your assignments till almost your second midterm exam and you will end up to withdrew with W because of his laziness. He will lye through out the semester that he will grade your assignments this weekend and he will never do it. He is teaching very complicated and confusing.

The most delusional professor u will ever see. Terrible handwriting, confusing lectures, thinks he invented physics. Looking here at year after year of bad reviews, baffles me how he still has a job.

Average on exams less than 50(no curve), can not self study through books/videos as exams are based on his lectures. He does not know how to teach and his lectures are way too long with barely any practice questions. He starts talking about irrelevant stuff during class. Don't waste your time with him. Don't know how he still isn't fired.

BEWARE: if you care about your gpa at all, PLEASE don't take this professor.

19 out of 28 people dropped by the W deadline. That will speak for itself. Not an unpleasant teacher by any stretch of the imagination - just have never taken an "intro" class this ridiculously hard before.

He seems to think that going in depth on a few topics is better than actually covering everything you need and he loses time on tangents. It's ok to make students work hard, but the class should at least be worth it...

His handwriting is so bad. He spent almost the whole class explaining one simple kinematic problem. The problem was straightforward but he made it 10x harder and won't stop explaining how the formulas come from where we don't actually even need to use them in the actual problems. I would recommend Misra over him even tho Misra's tests are harder.

He gives out practice problems before the exam because the questions are tough on the exam. The exam has some of these practice problems which is absolutely hard. He then continues to give us the "answer keys" to this practice problem but those "answer keys" aren't even useful because his handwriting is so messy and he skips steps and gets confusin

FIRE THIS GUY OHLONE, HE IS RUINING THE CAREERS OF SO MANY FUTURE ENGINEERS

DONT TAKE HIM I THOUGHT I WAS TAKING PHYSICS 140 BUT IT WAS PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS. BAD AT TEACHING AND THINKS HE INVENTED PHYSICS. DONT WASTE UR TIME HERE TRUST ME

THIS DUDE SERIOUSLY WAITED TILL THE LAST DAY TO GRADE STUFF, ended up curving since everyone was failing. He mentioned Rate My Prof, but I disagree he's awful, and I know from exp. Seriously, DON'T BOTHER HERE, NOT GOOD FOR YOUR MENTAL AND STRESS. BETTER TAKE OTHER THAN HIM.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!! If all the other sections are full, just wait for the next semester. THIS CLASS WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. AVOID THIS PROF AT ALL COSTS! He grades incredibly harshly, and doesn't give partial credit on test answers for correct steps or formulas. He believes mistakes on tests were done on purpose as 'an insult to physics'.

Bad at teaching. Wastes so much time during lectures. Awful grading policy and tests. Requires you learn the material mostly on your own. Overall, very difficult even just to pass. Not because of physics but because of the professor

This professor took pride in NOT teaching us kinematics!! It's a MECHANICAL physics class and we went the entire semester avoiding using kinematic formulas bc he didn't like how students mesmerized the formulas. In other words, he would often take the longest possible route to solve problems when they could be done in a fraction of the time.

Terrible professor, can't read anything he reads on the board, never grades anything, makes everything a thousand times more complicated than it has to be.

Wants you to do things his specific way on exams or else no credit. Wouldnt be big problem but he assigns barely any hw and when he does he doesnt grade it until end of smstr. Lectures: loses everyone with rambling about wrong techniques and how "bad" his students are, makin lectures useless too. Such a bad prof that he has me asking for more hw

his handwriting is so bad making lectures really hard to follow; he spends so much time talking about very simple things. if you took hs physics, you would recognize all topics, but he makes them hard. no chance of self teaching bc no hw; Belittles people who answer questions wrong; by end of smstr, nobody answers. Dont take, egotist & bad prof

Worst professor I think I have ever taken. Not only is it impossible to make out his hand writting, he has no cadence or flow to his lecture or his class. He didnt have a proper syllabus until months into the class. He actively gets upset if you dare to ask a question in class! I could keep going, but to keep it short. Dont take this professor.

NEVER take him. better to go to santa barbara city college for online physics. this guy is insane. someone in my class got every question right on the test but lost 75% (had a 25% on a MIDTERM) because he didnt do it the professors way. Thinks he has the right to reinvent physics, very demeaning when asked questions, and gives you horrible grades.

Many things wrong with this professor, so please don't take him. He posted his syllabus weeks into his class and didn't even follow it. The semester ended two days ago and he has yet to grade ANYTHING except one midterm. He posted a lab report AFTER THE FINAL for a lab we did two months ago. His handwriting is genuinely awful so good luck!

Just fire him at this point bro.

As someone who received an A in this class, I believe I can speak from an unbiased perspective. He did NOT follow his syllabus. It wasn't posted until a month into the semester, and he changed it AFTER the final, too. His handwriting is horrible, and his grading is arbitrary. He takes long tangents and is 100% the worst professor I've ever taken.

Disorganized course with an unreliable syllabus. Some listed topics are never covered. Lectures add little value. Notes are illegible and sometimes contain errors. Review his practice problems from his lectures and notes for exams and do it his way or lose points. Material is easy he made it hard. Also ratemyprof lives on his mind rent free.

It has to be illegal to be this bad at teaching.

For someone who's lectures mainly comes from self written notes and the whiteboard, his handwritings are illegible. His "answer keys" aren't even correct sometimes. He has awfully unclear grading criteria and did not follow the syllabus at all which wasn't even posted until a month. Please avoid this professor at all cost.

For someone who's heavily reliant on handwritten notes and the whiteboard his handwriting is awful, borderline a different language. Didn't follow the syllabus which wasn't posted until a month into the class. His grading criteria is non-existent except to follow exactly what he does even though his "answer keys" aren't even correct sometimes.

In class, I couldn't understand the professor's notes, they were written in a mess, and you had to pay attention to his lectures all the time, and the physics courses on the Internet were hard to help you because you had to write according to his method. You only know the grade after the final exam, and the grading is very slow.

Luc Desmedt is a egotistical physics professor who compares his lectures to the physics textbooks at Yale. His writing is hard to read especially at a far and his teaching methods aren't good. He assigns multiple homework lessons throughout the course but doesn't grade any of them. His grading rubric is outrageous and a scam. Don't take this class.

He overcomplicates his lectures, and goes on tangents that have very little value. He needs to Improve his Handwriting, and write slower, as it's illegible. He needs to label his notes more clearly as the board gets so cluttered, you don't know what he's writing about, and he needs to label the example questions.

I'd rather take another full year with a better professor than step foot in his lectures. If you love being lost and taking meaningless notes without comprehension this is the professor for you. Handwriting is atrocious. he jumps randomly between concepts. I couldn't even do my own research because I had no clue what concepts we were even covering.

Handwriting looks like another language. DO NOT TAKE HIM if you care about your sanity. Overcomplicates the simplest things. Nice guy but very bad at teaching he even compares himself to yale level teaching and comprehension. it's just insane i wouldn't take his class under any circumstances