EFETOBORE TASKER: I would say that I know for me, personally,
this class--
it's one thing to learn physics in a classroom situation
where you're just learning or you
have like mathematical proofs and you're
taking that as truth.
But in this class, you really put those things to the test,
and you see that, oh, these things I learned in class
are actually true because I can see it on a computer screen
that my physical results match a theoretical prediction.
So I'd say that anybody wants to replicate this sort of format
at another school--
it's great to have experiments that
prove simple foundational physics that you learn
in the classroom just so the students can see
that the things that they learn in the classroom
are a real physical phenomenon that they can observe.
SAARIK KALIA: Yeah, I think one of the key things
for this class is obviously just the facilities--
like having the experiments.
But I also think it's good to have
instructors who really understand the experiments as
well.
Because a lot of the times they're just
looking through the lab guide.
It might not be clear how certain things work,
so it was very helpful to have instructors around who we could
to ask questions and get answers that would really
enhance our understanding of what was actually going on.