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PHYS 132LWaves, Electricity, Magnetism and Measurement Laboratory

Faculty
Science
Last listed
Spring 2021

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2021 and last ran in Winter 2021. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W20
  2. W21

Ran in 2 terms, Winter 2020 to Winter 2021.

For students who have taken or are taking PHYS 122 and who intend to follow a Physics or Mathematical Physics plan; all other students who have taken or are taking PHYS 122 should select PHYS 122L. [Note: Lab runs each week. Offered: W]

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: Chemical Physics, Life Physics, Materials and Nanosciences, Mathematical Physics, Physics, and Physics and Astronomy students only. Coreq: PHYS 122 Antireq: PHYS 112L or 122L

In today’s calendar

Reviewed on UW Flow

40% liked it38% easy67% useful

From 35 ratings and 5 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Intro labs are bad

    Jul 2018 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Generally useful course if you're into it, however I'm not super into labs

    Jun 2017 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Eventually the labs pass the course content and it becomes very difficult. But i really liked the experiments and once we learned the topics our lab covered it was super interesting and cool.

    May 2016 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • This class is painful. Lab reports are due at the end of class so make sure to do as much preparatory work as possible. The experiments based on Phys 122 content were ok but the other ones were brutal. If your TA is a hard marker, watch out.

    Apr 2015 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Just do the pre-labs and you'll be fine.

    Mar 2015 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

17 posts and comments in 15 threads mention PHYS 132L, January 2016 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2020

Physics 2 and Organic Chem 2 3 points, 6 comments

“Hey friends, I have completed my undergrad degree at McMaster and need to go back to school for some courses. Waterloo is closer to me where I live so I am looking to do the courses there. …”

u/TheRealArjun: “Phys 2 for sci: Phys 112 and Phys 112L Phys 2 for phys: Phys 122 and Phys 122L/Phys 132L Not too sure about differences the two Organic Chem 2 courses, 265 and 267”

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Winter 2020

My first Phys Lab Course 5 points, 7 comments

u/AFMmemes: “I've Phys132L this semester. It's my first physics lab course. I need some advice from you. I've already bought the lab manual. I want to know how I can prepare for the course ahead of time. I have 10 lab sessions, 5 of which are at Phy and 5 at STC. …”

u/TheRealArjun: “i guess just read over the lab instructions, there are ten practical lab sessions, once a week”

u/TheRealArjun: “Yes, the likely reason is another lab course, Phys 122L has half of the labs in Phys 132L, so those 5 labs will likely include Phys 122L students and I guess due to scheduling/lab equipment, are in another building.”

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Fall 2019

Spring 2019

Winter 2019

Fall 2018

Quick question about dropping Physics lab 2 points, 7 comments

u/cabbagemeister: “PHYS132L is only offered in the winter. If you are in co-op, your next winter term is your 3B term. Basically, you can't drop PHYS132L unless you want to be playing catchup with credits. What course is it that you want to take instead?”

u/excrowned: “Dammit. I wanted to take cs135. Is there no way I can get into another section of phys132L? I tried searching for it and it's like it doesnt even exist. Am I stuck in that one section?”

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Winter 2018

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