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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Two things about him really bothered me: 1) Lectures are pretty incomprehensible. He writes messy, writes everywhere, and does not label things well. If you already understand what he is talking about, then this isn't a problem, but if you are like me and had no idea what superfluidity (or various other things) was, then you will be writing like mad only to later figure out that you have no idea what some equation or graph even meant. 2) He lectures on things that he never has any intent of testing/making you do a report on. For 18L this was certainly bearable, as our TA was great and let us know what was expected of us (though was not the type to just hand out A's), though I cannot imagine how incomprehensible Rosenzweig might be in a regular lecture.
Two things about him really bothered me: 1) Lectures are pretty incomprehensible. He writes messy, writes everywhere, and does not label things well. If you already understand what he is talking about, then this isn't a problem, but if you are like me and had no idea what superfluidity (or various other things) was, then you will be writing like mad only to later figure out that you have no idea what some equation or graph even meant. 2) He lectures on things that he never has any intent of testing/making you do a report on. For 18L this was certainly bearable, as our TA was great and let us know what was expected of us (though was not the type to just hand out A's), though I cannot imagine how incomprehensible Rosenzweig might be in a regular lecture.
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Fall 2019 - Professor Whitehorn is a really great professor: clear, thoughtful, and is even available to answer questions outside of class and office hours. That said, 18L is a heavy (but not particularly hard) class (expect 6 hours for labs, 8 hours for reports, and 1 hour for lecture each week), but if you're reading this you probably have to take it anyway, so take it from the best. Also, he grades on a straight scale, which makes your grade essentially a luck of the draw by who your TAs are. 70% lab reports (lowest dropped), 30% attendance.
Fall 2019 - Professor Whitehorn is a really great professor: clear, thoughtful, and is even available to answer questions outside of class and office hours. That said, 18L is a heavy (but not particularly hard) class (expect 6 hours for labs, 8 hours for reports, and 1 hour for lecture each week), but if you're reading this you probably have to take it anyway, so take it from the best. Also, he grades on a straight scale, which makes your grade essentially a luck of the draw by who your TAs are. 70% lab reports (lowest dropped), 30% attendance.
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