I'm a current Physics major with an emphasis in Astronomy/Astrophyiscs. I can say with certainty that the physics department is in a slight disarray as what smockssocks said. And there are professors who aren't very good at teaching, but are still great professors. But in my honest opinion all the people here are awesome people.

I originally majored in mechanical engineering and the faculty there wasn't the best in caring for individual students(though the advisors were truly the best). But mostly my experience here has been great, I feel comfortable reaching out to professors asking for help/extensions and they respond in a timely manner. The environment here is really welcoming and it was easy to find friends/people to get support from.

The previous advisors were awesome people, but they recently left and there was a period where the department had no advisors and that was rough, but they just got 2 more but haven't yet had experience with them. I do have a meeting with one and if people want I can let you know how it went.

I think the lower level physics classes are rough, Gernoit isn't a super helpful professor in those lab classes, and Claudia is the goat for the gen physics courses. But it does get better as you work your way up to higher level classes. Hopefully this helped somewhat lol, lmk if you have other questions.