PHYS 2040

This class was one of the most pointless courses I have ever taken at UVA. The labs were meant to be "investigative" but were terribly set up so oftentimes you would conclude something based off of the results of your experiment that was completely contrary to what the law you were investigating states. Additionally, the TAs are COMPLETELY worthless. Every single question my TA helped me answer was marked as incorrect when the lab was graded. If this wasn't enough, the labs are graded based on accuracy--so you are taking a lab that teaches you nothing and then are asked to make broad conclusions that are completely dependent on applying a law that you have never learned in class. On top of this, the prelabs are just as if not worse than the lab itself and require you to make predictions which are then ALSO graded on correctness (but this time you don't even have the "benefit" of actually going through the experiment). This lab would work about as well as if you had just left me in a room with a bunch of wires and told me to "figure out something cool" go sign up for a Chegg account now because you are not going to make it through this class if you dont.