PHYS 360AModern Physics Laboratory 1

42% liked it19% easy69% useful

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• You are given a list of experiments and you have to choose which ones you would like to do.
  Avoid doing the experiment, Helium Excitation, they make you use some awful analogue recording machine which makes obtaining data very difficult and time consuming. It would be better if that experiment was scrapped altogether. Also, avoid Nuclear Counting if you can. The other labs I did were fine. The reports took a long time to write. There is also a presentation you have to do at the end. They don't really tell you what to put on the presentation so, here are some things you should consider: Full uncertainty calculations, graphics (arrows, circles etc.) on graphs to show what you're analysing,…

  Aug 2022 · didn’t like it · 4 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

• This lab is a joke and does not prepare you for real lab work. There's lesser reviews on this because we've realized that trash undergrad labs are the norm here so we've stopped complaining

  Dec 2024 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• I felt this lab was way better than the second year labs. Being able to collaborate on the reports was relieving. I also liked the autonomy in that we were able to choose the experiments. Lab instructors are slow to return reports however (with the exception of Guenther), which makes improvement difficult... don't understand the point of deadlines if marks aren't going to get released until the course has finished.

  Aug 2023 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

• Absolute garbage course. You're expected to write journal articles with no experience, submit a report with someone else so if they're a moron you're screwed, and use equipment that was last considered modern when the school opened. Avoid this course if you can, every physics student I know hates this course and we all know it's a useless course.

  Jul 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

• This is really a "do it on your own" lab

  Dec 2018 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this