PHYSICS 18L
Modern Physics Laboratory
Description: Lecture, one hour; laboratory, six hours. Enforced requisites: courses 1A, 1B, and 1C (or 1AH, 1BH, and 1CH), 4AL, 4BL, 17. Experiments on radioactivity, scattering, Planck constant, superconductivity, superfluidity. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2021 - This professor curves down for labs. I shouldn't even need to elaborate but I will. The labs weren't particularly hard but due to the course being online in Fall 2021 (for whatever silly reason they kept a lab class online when every other one was in person at this point) the labs were notoriously difficult to set up properly to get data by the end of the course. At one point the TAs, who were really the only way to get help due to the class structure, didn't even know what to do/how to answer students questions about the labs. I went to just about every office hours trying to learn Python for this course since I had never used it before (Python should be a prereq for this course). Going to all office hours and meeting with TAs outside of their normal hours to complete my assignments to their liking I was still somehow losing points on the labs. Regardless I ended the course with ~93%. In any other course this would be an A or at least an A-. In Wesley's class this is a B+. Despite having shown significant effort to accomplish the tasks assigned to both TAs and the professor and confirming that my assignments met the requirements they were looking for before submission every time, he refused to remove the down curve because that was "representative of the work I did." The work I did didn't raise any alarms when I showed it to you before submission, make it make sense.
Fall 2021 - This professor curves down for labs. I shouldn't even need to elaborate but I will. The labs weren't particularly hard but due to the course being online in Fall 2021 (for whatever silly reason they kept a lab class online when every other one was in person at this point) the labs were notoriously difficult to set up properly to get data by the end of the course. At one point the TAs, who were really the only way to get help due to the class structure, didn't even know what to do/how to answer students questions about the labs. I went to just about every office hours trying to learn Python for this course since I had never used it before (Python should be a prereq for this course). Going to all office hours and meeting with TAs outside of their normal hours to complete my assignments to their liking I was still somehow losing points on the labs. Regardless I ended the course with ~93%. In any other course this would be an A or at least an A-. In Wesley's class this is a B+. Despite having shown significant effort to accomplish the tasks assigned to both TAs and the professor and confirming that my assignments met the requirements they were looking for before submission every time, he refused to remove the down curve because that was "representative of the work I did." The work I did didn't raise any alarms when I showed it to you before submission, make it make sense.
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Winter 2022 - Professor Huan was a solid professor. The class was mostly run by the TA's however and my TA's were both great. For my quarter there was a lab a week for 10 weeks. The first two weeks were online and just mostly about using python for data analysis. The rest of the labs were in-person, and were very enjoyable. This class had 7 graded formal reports. I thought that the grading of the reports were generally very fair. The reports didn't need to be very long either, anywhere from 3-5 pages was a good length. Depending on your TA the grading could be either good or bad, but for my case it was good. The reports are due by the end of the quarter. My advice would be to do 1 report a week though. If you let the reports pile up then you will be struggling to complete them at the end of the quarter which may impact final exam studying. Some of the labs that were done include the photoelectric effect, building radios, measuring the e/m ratio, and superconductivity. The labs were engaging and fun. The only major complaint I had was with the lab manual. Some of the labs were structured very clearly, however some, if not most, were structured in a confusing manner. I found myself having to ask the TA's a lot of questions to clarify what to actually do in the labs. Also, it was kind of hard to understand Huan in the zoom sessions, mostly due to his mic quality. Overall Huan was a good professor and structured this lab class fairly. I would take Huan again.
Winter 2022 - Professor Huan was a solid professor. The class was mostly run by the TA's however and my TA's were both great. For my quarter there was a lab a week for 10 weeks. The first two weeks were online and just mostly about using python for data analysis. The rest of the labs were in-person, and were very enjoyable. This class had 7 graded formal reports. I thought that the grading of the reports were generally very fair. The reports didn't need to be very long either, anywhere from 3-5 pages was a good length. Depending on your TA the grading could be either good or bad, but for my case it was good. The reports are due by the end of the quarter. My advice would be to do 1 report a week though. If you let the reports pile up then you will be struggling to complete them at the end of the quarter which may impact final exam studying. Some of the labs that were done include the photoelectric effect, building radios, measuring the e/m ratio, and superconductivity. The labs were engaging and fun. The only major complaint I had was with the lab manual. Some of the labs were structured very clearly, however some, if not most, were structured in a confusing manner. I found myself having to ask the TA's a lot of questions to clarify what to actually do in the labs. Also, it was kind of hard to understand Huan in the zoom sessions, mostly due to his mic quality. Overall Huan was a good professor and structured this lab class fairly. I would take Huan again.
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