PHYS271

General Physics: Electrodynamics, Light, Relativity and Modern Physics (Laboratory)

Prerequisite: PHYS261. Corequisite: PHYS270. Lab includes experiments on ac circuits, magnetism, light and modern physics. PHYS270 and PHYS271 (lab) must be taken in the same semester. Students must pay a $50.00 lab materials fee.

Sister Courses: PHYS271M

Spring 2026

Kara Hoffman

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Matt Severson

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Fall 2025

Andris Skuja

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Matt Severson

3 reviews
Average rating: 3.33

Summer 2025

David Buehrle

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Spring 2025

Andris Skuja

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Kara Hoffman

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Matt Severson

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Past Semesters

Andris Skuja

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Andris Skuja

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Matt Severson

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Andris Skuja

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David Buehrle

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Matt Severson

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Matt Severson

3 reviews
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David Buehrle

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Matt Severson

3 reviews
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Matt Severson

3 reviews
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David Buehrle

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Hao Wu

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Haoran Ni

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Reza Hadadi

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Hadi Vafaei

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Prateek Bhargava

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Frederick Wellstood

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Sungwoo Hong

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Wendell Hill

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Matthew Severson

2 reviews
Average rating: 4.00

George Goldenbaum

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James Anderson

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.50 between 8,079 students*

A-: 8.8%

A: 53.83%

A+: 5.5%

B-: 3.14%

B: 9.36%

B+: 7.53%

C-: 1.1%

C: 4.47%

C+: 2.2%

D-: 0.1%

D: 0.94%

D+: 0.27%

F: 0.45%

W: 1.93%

other: 0.38%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.