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Maria Mukhina PHYS275 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/04/2024	Very good professor. Willing to help her students, and even though the class was a little tedious she did her best to make things easy to understand. Very nice person, would highly recommend.
Anwar Bhatti PHYS275 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/23/2024	I honestly did not have a problem with Dr. Bhatti at all. Both him and his TA were accommodating when issues arose and his class was not difficult at all. I will say the second exam was much harder than the first, but his study guides are very helpful and as long as you study from those, you should really be fine. The class really is mostly self directed, and I would highly recommend the split lab. I would definitely recommend this professor.
Anwar Bhatti PHYS275 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/23/2023	I found him to be very pleasant to talk to and helpful in explaining concepts and corrections during the labs. Practicals were fair, and he posted helpful review slides.
Anwar Bhatti PHYS275 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/22/2023	Dr. Bhatti is overall a good professor. He answers questions when asked, gives practice exams that are extremely helpful, and his class is not too difficult or overwhelming. If it still exists, I advise taking the split option of 2 and 2 hours. This class really is mostly self guided (and kind of boring and annoying I will say) but overall not difficult to do well and is a learning experience. Id take him if you can.
Anwar Bhatti PHYS275 Expecting a B- FozzyBear1 12/15/2023	I had no idea what this guy was saying 90% of the time, but it's a lab so it doesn't really matter (you learn it all by yourself anyways). He was nice whenever I interacted with him, which is a plus.
Anwar Bhatti PHYS275 Anonymous 12/12/2023	This lab was literally a 4-hour torture session. If sitting in front of a computer screen doing busywork for 4 hours wasn't enough, whenever I would ask the professor or TA a question I would get a very convoluted and roundabout answer. I could've asked a brick wall the same question and would have gotten the exact same answer. The lab manuals were good at first, but towards the end, especially for the standing waves one, the lab manuals became useless. Nobody knew what they were doing, and of course, the professor and TA barely helped either. If anything, the professor would slow me down. I was following the lab directions and he would just stop me during the lab and question me as if I had just committed a crime when I had literally already completed the step he was questioning me about. Thank god I'm done with this lab, if you can, don't take 275 with this professor.
Simone-Gunde Kulin PHYS275 Expecting a B Anonymous 06/16/2023	Her labs were relatively easy to follow. Doing the pre-labs for her labs is essential. Only two exams which are both preceded with useful study guides. The TA you get is very important for this course. Overall, she is very nice and willing to let you make up labs on other days. Her accent is slightly difficult to understand but most of her points get across.
Daniel Lathrop PHYS275 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/22/2022	Straightforward with instructions and pretty helpful with lab modules. PHYS275 is the first of the 4 semester lab sequence for PHYS majors, so it's not that bad, mostly requires you to be just proficient at Excel - keep in mind that the exams require you to be good with doing basic mathematical operation just as differentiation and basic algebra and no.... there is no formula sheet: you have to memorise all the formulas and are only allowed to use EXCEL for them [NO Calculators Allowed]. Lathrop's sense of humour is pretty entertaining and his lab tour was probably the best part of the whole class. I definitely recommend taking him if you ever get the chance!
Daniel Lathrop PHYS275 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/08/2022	Really glad I took his lab section. Didn’t lecture every class and just made sure we knew the important things before starting lab. Very chill guy, even gave us a tour of his research lab! Definitely recommend.
Anwar Bhatti PHYS275 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/29/2021	Most of this class's work is self-directed; he (and the TA) answer questions and are helpful in doing so. The TA does most (maybe all?) of the grading for both labs and exams, as far as I'm aware. At the beginning of every lab he spends about 10-20 minutes giving a quick rundown of some of the important concepts and formulae in the lab. The only problem I had is that during that time, he often didn't speak loud enough for me to hear because the room has tons of loud background noise. The work itself (i.e. the lab manuals) is pretty much standardized across the department, so you read and perform the same labs in the class regardless of your professor. They are not too difficult for the most part, nor are the weekly prelab and homework assignments. Some of the "hotshot" questions (indicated as such in the lab manual and ExpertTA) are very difficult and good to attempt, but they are not graded.

Maria Mukhina
PHYS275

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/04/2024

Very good professor. Willing to help her students, and even though the class was a little tedious she did her best to make things easy to understand. Very nice person, would highly recommend.

Anwar Bhatti
PHYS275

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
01/23/2024

I honestly did not have a problem with Dr. Bhatti at all. Both him and his TA were accommodating when issues arose and his class was not difficult at all. I will say the second exam was much harder than the first, but his study guides are very helpful and as long as you study from those, you should really be fine. The class really is mostly self directed, and I would highly recommend the split lab. I would definitely recommend this professor.

Anwar Bhatti
PHYS275

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/23/2023

I found him to be very pleasant to talk to and helpful in explaining concepts and corrections during the labs. Practicals were fair, and he posted helpful review slides.

Anwar Bhatti
PHYS275

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/22/2023

Dr. Bhatti is overall a good professor. He answers questions when asked, gives practice exams that are extremely helpful, and his class is not too difficult or overwhelming. If it still exists, I advise taking the split option of 2 and 2 hours. This class really is mostly self guided (and kind of boring and annoying I will say) but overall not difficult to do well and is a learning experience. Id take him if you can.

Anwar Bhatti
PHYS275

Expecting a B-
FozzyBear1
12/15/2023

I had no idea what this guy was saying 90% of the time, but it's a lab so it doesn't really matter (you learn it all by yourself anyways). He was nice whenever I interacted with him, which is a plus.

Anwar Bhatti
PHYS275

Anonymous
12/12/2023

This lab was literally a 4-hour torture session. If sitting in front of a computer screen doing busywork for 4 hours wasn't enough, whenever I would ask the professor or TA a question I would get a very convoluted and roundabout answer. I could've asked a brick wall the same question and would have gotten the exact same answer. The lab manuals were good at first, but towards the end, especially for the standing waves one, the lab manuals became useless. Nobody knew what they were doing, and of course, the professor and TA barely helped either. If anything, the professor would slow me down. I was following the lab directions and he would just stop me during the lab and question me as if I had just committed a crime when I had literally already completed the step he was questioning me about. Thank god I'm done with this lab, if you can, don't take 275 with this professor.

Simone-Gunde Kulin
PHYS275

Expecting a B
Anonymous
06/16/2023

Her labs were relatively easy to follow. Doing the pre-labs for her labs is essential. Only two exams which are both preceded with useful study guides. The TA you get is very important for this course. Overall, she is very nice and willing to let you make up labs on other days. Her accent is slightly difficult to understand but most of her points get across.

Daniel Lathrop
PHYS275

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
12/22/2022

Straightforward with instructions and pretty helpful with lab modules. PHYS275 is the first of the 4 semester lab sequence for PHYS majors, so it's not that bad, mostly requires you to be just proficient at Excel - keep in mind that the exams require you to be good with doing basic mathematical operation just as differentiation and basic algebra and no.... there is no formula sheet: you have to memorise all the formulas and are only allowed to use EXCEL for them [NO Calculators Allowed]. Lathrop's sense of humour is pretty entertaining and his lab tour was probably the best part of the whole class. I definitely recommend taking him if you ever get the chance!

Daniel Lathrop
PHYS275

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/08/2022

Really glad I took his lab section. Didn’t lecture every class and just made sure we knew the important things before starting lab. Very chill guy, even gave us a tour of his research lab! Definitely recommend.

Anwar Bhatti
PHYS275

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
11/29/2021

Most of this class's work is self-directed; he (and the TA) answer questions and are helpful in doing so. The TA does most (maybe all?) of the grading for both labs and exams, as far as I'm aware. At the beginning of every lab he spends about 10-20 minutes giving a quick rundown of some of the important concepts and formulae in the lab. The only problem I had is that during that time, he often didn't speak loud enough for me to hear because the room has tons of loud background noise. The work itself (i.e. the lab manuals) is pretty much standardized across the department, so you read and perform the same labs in the class regardless of your professor. They are not too difficult for the most part, nor are the weekly prelab and homework assignments. Some of the "hotshot" questions (indicated as such in the lab manual and ExpertTA) are very difficult and good to attempt, but they are not graded.

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