3 reasons why I still go to Physics class
Just had my last Physics lab of the quarter, and hopefully of my life :)
Phys 122 is almost a joke, but it's not like I have a choice to take Physics... in any case this is what saves the lectures from being PURE torture:
a) Stuart Gazes - my lecturer, who is totally dedicated to helping hapless disinterested premeds understand Gauss' Law. As in, he REALLY cares that we learn something and not just memorise random formulae to regurgitate as needed... as the Chair for Undergraduate Studies I guess he has no choice, really, but he's doing an ab fab job.
b) Stuart Gazes - who is such a showman, making efforts to make class interesting. There was the time he was demonstrating how the gold foil leaps up when you charge an electroscope, and everyone went 'oooh'... then when he charged it a different way the second time and we didn't 'oooh' he said "Aha! You're jaded" :P
And the time he brought a jerry can of liquid N2 to class and sloshed it all over his table... he was cooling a metal ring to show that decrease in temp lowers resistance, so that in a magnetic field it generates a force large enough to flip itself 3m in the air :P)
c) Stuart Gazes (have I mentioned it yet? love that man ;)
Phys 122 is almost a joke, but it's not like I have a choice to take Physics... in any case this is what saves the lectures from being PURE torture:
a) Stuart Gazes - my lecturer, who is totally dedicated to helping hapless disinterested premeds understand Gauss' Law. As in, he REALLY cares that we learn something and not just memorise random formulae to regurgitate as needed... as the Chair for Undergraduate Studies I guess he has no choice, really, but he's doing an ab fab job.
b) Stuart Gazes - who is such a showman, making efforts to make class interesting. There was the time he was demonstrating how the gold foil leaps up when you charge an electroscope, and everyone went 'oooh'... then when he charged it a different way the second time and we didn't 'oooh' he said "Aha! You're jaded" :P
And the time he brought a jerry can of liquid N2 to class and sloshed it all over his table... he was cooling a metal ring to show that decrease in temp lowers resistance, so that in a magnetic field it generates a force large enough to flip itself 3m in the air :P)
c) Stuart Gazes (have I mentioned it yet? love that man ;)


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