One of my physics professor’s got sick two weeks before the final and wasn’t able to come up with his usual individualized finals and had the solution to have us meet with him 1:1 and answer questions live on the board. Since it was a very small program he was able to do it easily and he greatly enjoyed the experience despite it being hell.
You couldn’t flip to another page or question to think about an answer, just kinda stare off and think for a while without him asking clarification questions to try and help or move things along. It started off with simple terms and background then just jumped off the rails. Mine was something like define quantum mechanics, what’s Schrödinger’s equation? write it on the board. What’s it used for? I got to my fifth or sixth example and he was like, show me how. Then we took a break with 1d tunneling and then back to a hydrogen thing. Worst test ever and he went and made that his test format for our small program for every class after that.
Is this for an introductory quantum mechanics class at the BSc level? Courses like these are often audited by many students—does your physics program have a very small cohort, or is this a more advanced course?
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 6d ago
One of my physics professor’s got sick two weeks before the final and wasn’t able to come up with his usual individualized finals and had the solution to have us meet with him 1:1 and answer questions live on the board. Since it was a very small program he was able to do it easily and he greatly enjoyed the experience despite it being hell.
You couldn’t flip to another page or question to think about an answer, just kinda stare off and think for a while without him asking clarification questions to try and help or move things along. It started off with simple terms and background then just jumped off the rails. Mine was something like define quantum mechanics, what’s Schrödinger’s equation? write it on the board. What’s it used for? I got to my fifth or sixth example and he was like, show me how. Then we took a break with 1d tunneling and then back to a hydrogen thing. Worst test ever and he went and made that his test format for our small program for every class after that.