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student in PHYS272, 2021
"Dr. Heidarian showed us how the information we were learning about electrical charges applied to observations we were making about
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student in PHYS122, spring 2022
"It has been helpful to visualize a concept and helped me personally to understand it in a more clear sense.
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student in PHYS272, 2021
"The falling monkey demonstration was really helpful because it allowed me to see how the velocities of the bullet and
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"Demonstrations with visual representations of wave phenomenon have helped me understand a lot better than without them (I'm terrible at
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"The demonstration was for how waves change in an enclosed space when the size of the space changes. It was
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student in PHYS260, 2021
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student in PHYS171, 2021
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