Vasile Surducan wrote:
> Most of the electronic courses are using too much math and loose the
> real phenomena explanation.
Precisely that is happening in my Physics class. We're in the 
electronics chapter, and the teacher (who is quite a genius, but a 
horrible teacher) seems to think that to understand and use a capacitor 
we need to know and be able to use Maxwell's equations, in differential 
form. Oh, we all failed the first exam, which barely dealt with such 
things as resistors in series and discharging capacitors, but did it in 
such a convoluted way that none of us could understand it. Meanwhile, 
I'm back home designing microcontrolled monitoring systems and the like, 
while we haven't even mentioned transistors in class.

At least I managed to get a deal out of him. If I manage to build a 
programmable computer out of 74xx logic that can at least compute a 
square and a cube root (in software), I automatically get a 100% on the 
next (and probably last) exam. Shouldn't be that hard :)


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