Pfsh. Student laborations are 95% about gaining practical knowledge about laboration methods(*) and 2% about gaining a deeper understanding of the theory. Some of the first labs I did in college were on basic mechanics stuff, high school level really, but we had to set up the experiments ourselves while the lab assistants laughed their asses off/hid in their break room. We learned more from those labs than by any later ones.
(*) How to handle chemicals, how to use the equipment, how to determine what parameters to study, how to put out fires, how to explain away why the measured data didn't agree with the theory (equipment malfunction, contaminated samples and local magnetic fields).
The remaining 3%? Giant lasers.
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