Just wait until you have a critical design for some scientific instrument or demanding application and you need to understand the theoretical aspects of capacitance or resistance, then, you will be very happy to be familiar with the math. Or suppose you become employed as a research engineer, do you think you will need to understand the math? Find an opportunity to review some of the articles in the IEEE Journal. Can you even understand the articles without at least Ordinary Differential Equations, or knowing what Curl, grad or Div means? Try reviewing some of the professional journals and then you will appreciate your teacher. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hector Martin" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [EE] practical course about electronics > 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 :) > > > -- > Hector Martin (hector@marcansoft.com) > Public Key: http://www.marcansoft.com/marcan.asc > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist