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EFETOBORE TASKER: I would say
that I know for me, personally,

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this class--

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it's one thing to learn physics
in a classroom situation

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where you're just
learning or you

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have like mathematical
proofs and you're

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taking that as truth.

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But in this class, you really
put those things to the test,

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and you see that, oh, these
things I learned in class

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are actually true because I
can see it on a computer screen

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that my physical results match
a theoretical prediction.

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So I'd say that anybody wants
to replicate this sort of format

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at another school--

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it's great to have
experiments that

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prove simple foundational
physics that you learn

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in the classroom just
so the students can see

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that the things that they
learn in the classroom

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are a real physical phenomenon
that they can observe.

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SAARIK KALIA: Yeah, I
think one of the key things

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for this class is obviously
just the facilities--

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like having the experiments.

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But I also think
it's good to have

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instructors who really
understand the experiments as

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well.

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Because a lot of the
times they're just

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looking through the lab guide.

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It might not be clear
how certain things work,

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so it was very helpful to have
instructors around who we could

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to ask questions and get
answers that would really

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enhance our understanding of
what was actually going on.